May 31, 2018 - Jun 2, 2018 | 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Add to Calendar 31-05-2018 09:30 02-06-2018 16:00 America/Toronto Quilt Canada 2018 The annual national quilt ...
This week, Betty Giffin will knock on the front door of a home in Ottawa. She’ll have with her a handmade quilt to give to the woman who lives there. The woman has cancer, as does everyone who ...
Jun 18, 2020 - Jun 20, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Add to Calendar 18-06-2020 10:00 20-06-2020 16:00 America/Toronto Quilt Canada 2020 Canadian Quilters’ Association ...
From her southeast Calgary home, Pat Litke and a group of volunteers stitch together colourful pieces of fabric and warm batting, crafting quilts for cancer patients. The roughly six-by-four-feet ...
How many hands does it take to make 1,000 quilts? The Canadian Quilters Association is going to find out as members from across the country have started working towards Canada's Big Quilt Bee — it may ...
Vanessa Génier didn’t expect her project sending quilts to residential school survivors across Canada would gain national and global support. This summer, Missanabie Cree First Nation member Génier, ...
Ninety-three-year-old Monty Ionson fought back tears Saturday as he was wrapped in a handmade Quilt of Valour. “The quilts are a tangible symbol of your service to your country,” Janet Bergeron said ...
For those waiting on the home front during wartime, victory quilts were an important symbol of the ultimate goal — winning the war and welcoming the men and women who fought overseas back home.
TIMMINS - A national postal strike is causing delays for a local not-for-profit. Timmins-based Quilts for Survivors, a non-profit providing quilts to residential school survivors, is one of the many ...
Two years ago, our annual Canada Day special report compared Canada with its bête noire and sibling to the south, and we liked, and were sometimes surprised, by what we found. Last year, we tested ...