Canadian Handicrafts Guild
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The Canadian Handicrafts Guild was an association of Canadians involved in handicrafts that was founded in Montreal in 1906. At first the goal was to preserve and market traditional home crafts that w
Mme. Soulier, bobbin lace maker at the Canadian Handicraft Exhibition at the Manitoba Agricultural College, Fort Garry (June 1933)
Women's Institute, Lower Granville. Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, displaying a hooked rug c. 1930
Solomonie, watched by his daughter Annie, working on a model kayak for the Canadian Handicrafts Guild (July 1951)
The Women's Art Association of Canada is an organization founded in 1887 to promote and support women artists and craftswomen in Canada, including artists in the visual media, performance artists and
Canadian Handicrafts Guild
…with the Canadian Craftsman's Association in 1974 to form the Canadian Crafts Council, now the Canadian Crafts Federation. The Montreal branch of the Women's Art Association of Canada (WAAC) was founded in 1894 by Mary Martha Phillips and Mary Alice Peck. The Montreal branch held major exhibits of applied arts in 1900 and 1902, and…
Lady Aberdeen, first patron of the WAAC (1898)