MEDIA
“Canada’s Forgotten Quilts” Podcast Episode – January 2022.
“Second World War Red Cross Quilts Have Links to Gananoque” – November 2021.
LINKS
“Canada’s Forgotten Quilts” – Episode #26 on the Podcast ‘Haptic and Hue’
“Let’s Talk About Wartime Quilting” – Interview with Karen Brown on ‘Just Get It Done Quilts’
“Canadian Comfort Quilts” – Article by Sharon MacDonald about Nova Scotian quilt making during WW2
Moose Jaw Red Cross Quilt – Canadian Red Cross quilt made in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan with story on the Canadian Red Cross website
Manitoba Museum – “Red Cross Quilt Returns Home” – blog post by Nancy Anderson – 2017
“The Old Guard” – Article by Isobel Holland from ‘Popular Patchwork’ – 2003
“Comfort from Kindness” – Exhibition Catalogue from the 2016 British quilt exhibit ‘Comfort from Kindness
“Volunteering in the First and Second World War” – Article by Dr. Sarah Glassford on the website ‘Wartime Canada’
“The Art of Quilting” – Article by Sandi Wingrove – 2017 – on the web blog ‘Ornamentum’
Brackley Beach, PEI – Minutes of the Red Cross Society
Stitch in Time – A Timeless Story of Remembrance – Article by Sandra Lindsay – 2018 – from the ‘Saugeen Times’ Ontario newspaper
Monarch Handknits for Men and Women in Service 1941 – see page 24-27 for lists of hundreds of groups who were making ‘comforts’ on the Home Front
FILMS
NFB film – “To the Ladies”
NFB film – “Home Front”
Red Cross Film – “There Too Go I”
CANADIAN WWII WARTIME QUILTS IN PUBLIC and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Quilters Guild UK – they have several in their collection, and this is one
BOOKS
300 Years of Canada’s Quilts. Mary Conroy, 1976
Alberta Quilt Makers and Their Quilts. Lucie Heins, 2021
Old Nova Scotian Quilts. Scott Robson and Sharon MacDonald, 1995
Ontario’s Heritage Quilts. Marilyn Walker, 1992
Passing on the Comfort: The War, The Quilts, and the Women who Made a Difference. An Keuning-Tichelaar, 2005
Quilts of Prince Edward Island. Sherrie Davidson, 2010
Threads of Life. Claire Hunter, 2019
WWII Quilts. Sue Reich, 2010
Wartime Quilts. Annette Gero, 2015
Sincere thanks to the members of the Canadian Red Cross Quilt (CRCQ) Research Group in Britain, and to Jo Andrews, creator and host of the podcast ‘Haptic and Hue’, along with a number of British museums, all who continue to ‘rescue’ quilts as they are found, and champion the cause of continued research in support of ensuring that this story continues to be told.