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 | Jun 27, 2023 | Article, History, Research
One of my interests in considering Canadian women’s wartime charitable work in textiles, is the multigenerational practice of women sewing and knitting in wartime. In a recent display I did for Quilts Kingston 2023, I demonstrated briefly how three women in Kingston...
by Joanna Dermenjian | May 21, 2023 | History, Research
Last month when I made a presentation at the Museum of Lennox and Addington in Napanee, Ontario, I was asked how I became interested in this research about the quilt-making and other handwork by Canadian women during the Second World War. One of the reasons, I...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Apr 10, 2023 | Children
An article last week by Helen Surgenor of CBC Radio headlined: “Young people are starting to knit and crochet for mental health.” The article echoes a similar theme to a wartime article from The Winnipeg Tribune on August 3, 1942, that makes suggestions for helping...
