How the archive is organised
The archive has 1,378 pages, of a few dozen kinds. Almost all of them sit in the six sections of the menu, under the home page; a few, at the end, describe the archive itself. This page lists each kind, says what it holds, and how many pages there are.
The home page
Where to start: the Society in a page, and the way into every section.
- Home page
The front page.
The Craft
What members made and how: techniques, guests, competitions, exhibitions and workshops.
- Craft hub
The way into the craft. - Techniques and Projects
The how-to articles the newsletter printed, by kind of work. - Guests and Demonstrators
The outside visitors who came to demonstrate. - Convention and workshop papers 19 pages · for example Awards and categories, 2014
The programmes, registration forms, competition notices and workshop announcements of 2014 to 2025. - Competitions, exhibitions and workshops 6 pages · for example Handicrafts Guild competition at the Canadian National Exhibition
The histories: the International Assembly, the C.N.E., the Federation shows, M6, Leather 2013, the workshops. - Website notices, 2017 to 2020 15 pages · for example 67th Annual General Meeting: awards, May 2017
Notices the Society posted on its own website in its last active years, kept as posted.
The Newsletter
Every surviving issue of Canadian Leathercraft, 1951 to 2026, transcribed in full beside its PDF.
- Newsletter hub
The way into the newsletter, by decade. - Decade pages 8 pages · for example The 1950s
The issues of one decade, newest first. - Index of Articles
Every article title the issues printed, A to Z, and by author. - Stories and Essays
The pieces members wrote for pleasure: accounts, travel, humour, poems and essays. - Issue pages 253 pages · for example December 1951 · No. 2
One issue: its contents, every page transcribed, and the original PDF.
Photo Gallery
The photographs: conventions, workshops, members' projects and the Virtual Competitions.
- Photo Gallery hub
All the albums, by kind, and the films. - Virtual Competitions
The online competitions of 2021 to 2025, by year. - Competition years 5 pages · for example 2021 Virtual Competition
One year's entries, each photographed with its maker's own description and its award. - Albums 73 pages · for example 52nd Annual, Jordan, 2002
One occasion or one project in photographs, every photograph captioned and credited.
The Society
What the Society was, how it ran, its branches, its honours, and how it ended.
- Society hub
The way into the Society's story. - Branch histories 14 pages · for example The Barrie Branch, 1958–1985
The twelve branches, each in its own words where the paper survives, and the members at large. - The Society in print
What newspapers, magazines, books and other archives printed about the Society, with the clippings shown from Newspapers.com. - The Society's story and records 15 pages · for example Canadian Leathercraft
The chronology, how it started, its constitution, money, honours, annual meetings, words, stamps and more. - The Weston Trophy
The branches' team trophy, 1957 to 2019, and every branch that won it. - The Larmour Library
The Society's lending library of books, patterns and slides.
People
Everyone the Society's records name, each with a page of their own.
- People hub
The way into everything about people. - People of the Society (the register)
Every name the records hold, A to Z, each opening on its own page. - The register by surname
The same names, sorted by surname. - Awards and Ribbons 9 pages · for example Awards and Ribbons (page 2 of 9)
Every award the Society gave and who received it, in alphabetical order over several pages. - Biographies
The members the Society wrote about at length. - Biography pages 42 pages · for example Edith Melchior-Hawkins
One long account of a member: a tribute, a profile or a memoir. - In Memoriam
The members whose deaths the Society recorded. - Members and Branches
Members known from the membership lists, by branch. - Members in print
Members' writing published outside the Society's own newsletter. - Person pages 687 pages · for example A.H. Pearson, on record 1952
One page for each person: offices, standing, awards and, where known, their life and work, every line linked to its source.
Documents
The Society's own papers: minutes, reports, programmes, certificates and more.
- Documents hub
The way into the Society's papers. - Annual General Meetings
The papers of the annual meetings in one table. - The Archive, Year by Year
What survives for each year, 1950 to 2026. - Document Archive
All the papers, in twelve collections. - Collections 11 pages · for example Award Certificates
One collection: minutes, reports, programmes, certificates, governance, press clippings and the rest. - Press clippings 6 pages · for example Many-talented fingers work at ‘Unique Crafts’
The few press items with a page of their own: a clipping shown from Newspapers.com, or the Norwegian magazine's pages. - Document pages 184 pages · for example Best General Member Leatherwork: Gregory Belenky, Cranes Purse
One paper: what it is, its full text, and the original PDF.
About this archive
How the archive works: what is withheld, how to reuse photographs, how to get in touch.
- About Us
The Society's own description of itself, kept as it last stood. - How the archive is organised
This page. - Archive policies and contact 3 pages · for example Contact the archive
What is withheld and why, using the photographs, and contacting the archive. - Links
The Society's own links page, and the map of Canadian leather crafters. - Search
Search every page of the archive.
For search engines and AI readers
The same structure is offered to machines in three places: the sitemap lists every page above; llms.txt summarises the archive for AI assistants; and every page carries schema.org structured data, with each person, award and newsletter issue defined once and referred to everywhere else. All the people are also published as data, with their sources, in one file for download.