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...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 25, 2024 | Article, Artifacts, History
“My 100-year-old friend Joan died recently, and I am trying to sort her belongings. I have a quilt that was given to her during the war; she told me that it had come from Canada and that when she first had it there was a note saying where it had come from. It is in...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Feb 6, 2024 | Article, Labels, Red Cross, Research
In the April 1987 issue of ‘Canada Quilts’, a letter to the editor was published from a British woman, Pauline Adams, who was looking for information about quilts made in Canada during the Second World War, that had been shipped to Britain. Pauline wrote: “There seem...
by Monika Modersitzki | Nov 21, 2023 | Guest Blogger
Joanna’s note: This month, I have invited Monika Modersitzki as a guest blogger, to relay this amazing story about wartime quilts found in Germany forty years after the war ended. This article and the photos are provided by Monika, with links to where you may...
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...
