by Joanna Dermenjian | Sep 21, 2023 | History
Quilts tell stories. Quilt tell stories about who made them. The designs, the colours, the materials used, the patterns in the fabric, the quality of the construction and stitching, all tell us something about the person or group who made it. Quilts from wartime also...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Sep 3, 2023 | Article, History, Red Cross
I am often asked what we know about how Canadian women went about completing the work of producing over 50,000,000 items for the war effort during WWII. Where did they meet, how did they organize, who was in charge, did they work on an assembly line, did they work to...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Aug 30, 2023 | Article, History, Research
This week, after finding the 1941 image of an underground hospital in London in wartime (posted on my IG account), I decided to look for more references to quilts in British newspapers. I found the article above in the Western News in Cardiff, Wales, dated August...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jul 27, 2023 | Artifacts
The contributions by Canadian Indigenous women to the war effort, both WWI and WW2, has been poorly documented. A follower brought this dress to my attention this week. It is currently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in an exhibit called ‘Uninvited:...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jul 19, 2023 | Children, Fiction
The book series of Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is known internationally and has been translated into at least 36 languages. But not everyone knows that the content of one of the books in this series sheds light on the voluntary labour of Canadian...
