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Maude’s Letter to Beulah

Maude’s Letter to Beulah

by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 18, 2026 | Article, Artifacts, GoFundMe Fundraising Campaign, History, Letter

As we continue the project to return the The Anna Mansi WWII CRCQ collection to Canada, to find a permanent home for these forty quilts, we are reminded that textiles carry memory, emotions and relationships. Sometimes, the sentiments are specific, such as a mother...
GoFundMe Campaign – May 21 update

GoFundMe Campaign – May 21 update

by Joanna Dermenjian | May 20, 2026 | Article, GoFundMe Fundraising Campaign

On May 13, we launched a GoFundMe Campaign to assist in fundraising to repatriate 40 quilts, made voluntarily by Canadian women on the home front during the Second World War. Of the over 400,000 quilts recorded sent by the Canadian Red Cross, these 40 surviving quilts...

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