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Awards and Ribbons (page 4 of 9)

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The awards the Society gave, as its own newsletter defined them, with the members the competition records show receiving them. Where the records name no recipient, none is invented here. Shown here in alphabetical order, split across 9 pages so each stays a reasonable size to load.

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 211 (Wearing Apparel)

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 212 (Belts)

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 213 (Handbags and Carrying Cases)

Awarded for handbags and carrying cases.

One of the numbered Hobby Classes judged at the Canadian National Exhibition’s Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building — an open hobby-show competition, not exclusive to the Society, in which C.S.C.L. members regularly placed. As the newsletter put it: “The advantages of C.S.C.L. membership as a motivating force and an educating body was reflected in the number of Society members who were named in the prize lists of the Hobby Classes competitions of the C.N.E.” Class 213 judged handbags and carrying cases.

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 214 (Pocket-sized Items)

Awarded for pocket-sized items — wallets, key cases and the like.

One of the numbered Hobby Classes judged at the Canadian National Exhibition’s Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building — an open hobby-show competition, not exclusive to the Society, in which C.S.C.L. members regularly placed. As the newsletter put it: “The advantages of C.S.C.L. membership as a motivating force and an educating body was reflected in the number of Society members who were named in the prize lists of the Hobby Classes competitions of the C.N.E.” Class 214 judged “Pocket-sized Items — Wallets, Key Cases, etc.”

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 215 (Molded Articles)

Awarded for molded articles — trays, sculpture, masks, jugs and the like.

One of the numbered Hobby Classes judged at the Canadian National Exhibition’s Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building — an open hobby-show competition, not exclusive to the Society, in which C.S.C.L. members regularly placed. As the newsletter put it: “The advantages of C.S.C.L. membership as a motivating force and an educating body was reflected in the number of Society members who were named in the prize lists of the Hobby Classes competitions of the C.N.E.” Class 215 judged “Molded Articles — Tray, Sculpture, Masks, Jugs, etc.”

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 216 (Jewellery)

Awarded for jewellery.

One of the numbered Hobby Classes judged at the Canadian National Exhibition’s Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Building — an open hobby-show competition, not exclusive to the Society, in which C.S.C.L. members regularly placed. As the newsletter put it: “The advantages of C.S.C.L. membership as a motivating force and an educating body was reflected in the number of Society members who were named in the prize lists of the Hobby Classes competitions of the C.N.E.” Class 216 judged jewellery.

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 460 (65 years or over - Jewellery)

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Hobby Class 461 (65 years or over - Leather, any article)

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft, 1981

Awarded for the CNE's reduced two-class leathercraft competition in 1981, after a move to smaller CNE quarters.

"This year the C.N.E. classes for Leathercraft were reduced, as were many of the crafts, in an effort to streamline the handwork sections of the C.N.E. This was also necessitated by the move to smaller quarters in the lower level of the Arts, Crafts and Hobbies building. Two classes only were listed, and Hamilton members swept the awards."

Recorded recipients

  • Art Morris 1981 First — over-65 craft class for leather
  • Hope Drysdale 1981 First — small articles and wearing apparel (both classes)
  • Ruth Haig 1981 Second — small articles and wearing apparel (both classes)
  • Art Morris 1981 Third — small articles or wearing apparel (one of the two classes, unspecified which)

Canadian National Exhibition top honours

Awarded for the overall top prize at the CNE, for the most first awards and the best piece in the display.

"Mrs Margaret Richardson, Ottawa for winning top honours at this year's Canadian National Exhibition. Mrs Richardson's awards included: 6 first awards and best piece in the display."

Recorded recipients

  • Margaret Richardson 1951 incised and tooled wallet; tooled and carved handbags; suede and snakeskin handbag; snakeskin covered box

Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division 1st Place

Recorded recipients

  • Carol McLean 1973 Jewellery — three tooled flower pins (pictured) (223)
  • Dave Elliott 1973 Tooled, Commercial Design — trifold wallet/card case, tooled duck (pictured) (217)
  • Janis Zalitis 1973 Carved, Original Design — bottle or canister, carved fish and rabbit scene (pictured) (220)
  • Olivia Smith 1973 Tooled, Original Design — handbag with beaded clasp trim (pictured) (218)
  • V. M. Morris 1973 Any carved article, commercial design (219)

Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division 2nd Place

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division 3rd Place

Recorded recipients

Canadian National Exhibition, Canadian Handicrafts Guild Section

Awarded for the Canadian Handicrafts Guild's own leathercraft competition within the CNE, emphasizing original design and fine craftsmanship.

"The Canadian Handicrafts Guild leathercraft competition at the C.N.E. this year furnished a concrete example of the progress made in this craft since the formation of our Society, with its emphasis on original design and fine craftsmanship." Final judging was done by Marie Huper, Professor of Art, Agnes Scott College, Georgia; Globe and Mail art critic Pearl McCarthy praised the Guild's section as showing better taste than the general CNE section.

Recorded recipients

  • Clarice Packham 1954 Leather Gloves, 1st, CSCL — prize given by Lewis Craft Supplies Ltd., Toronto
  • Edith Roscoe 1954 Original Design with minimum decoration, 1st, CSCL — prize given by Ottawa Valley Leathercraft Studios, Ottawa
  • Elmar Kalnavarns 1954 Tooled or Carved, 1st, CSCL — prize given by Clarke and Clarke Leathers, Barrie
  • Endel Ruberg 1954 Best Original Entry, 1st, CSCL — prize given by Women's Committee, C.H.G., Ont.
  • Margaret Lancaster 1954 Work neither tooled nor carved, 1st — prize given by Lewis Craft Supplies Ltd., Toronto

Canadian Pacific Exhibition Bronze Medal

Awarded for not a CSCL award — a member's individual prize at an outside exhibition.

"Frank Torry of Hamilton Branch won the bronze medal in the Canadian Pacific Exhibition, Vancouver, earlier this year." (Printed here as "Canadian Pacific Exhibition" — likely the Society's own name for the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, called by its formal name elsewhere in the register; kept as printed.)

Recorded recipients

Canadian Pacific Exhibition prize (unspecified)

Recorded recipients

Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Judges Special Award

Awarded for the judges' special choice at a Biennial.

A Biennial award distinct from the general "Judges Special Choice Award" (that one dated to the 2021 categories list); printed in full as "Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft Judges Special Award" in the Leather '82 report.

Recorded recipients

Capital Findings Award for Hand-Stitched Leather

Awarded for hand-stitched leather work.

Sponsored by Kel Rekuta of Capital Findings, a Toronto leathercraft-supplies dealer, who donated a gift certificate and a grab bag of hand-stitching supplies as the prize (1996 Annual).

Recorded recipients

Central Canada Exhibition First Prizes (three classes)

Awarded for first prizes in three separate classes at the Central Canadian Exhibition.

"Mrs I Limberg, Toronto for winning 1st prizes in three classes at the Central Canadian Exhibition. Mrs Limberg's award winning entries included: book cover; belt and box — all worked and finished according to Esthonian techniques of modelling and finishing leather."

Recorded recipients

Chatelaine Award

Awarded for Best in Show, C.N.E. Women's Division.

A "Special Chatelaine Award" given within the Canadian National Exhibition's Women's Division competition, not a C.S.C.L. award in its own right but one the Society's members repeatedly won. The Society's own 1975 retrospective names three consecutive winners — Gladys Riddell (1969), Clara Cavanagh (1970) and Anne Hook (1971) — and later member biographies describe Carol McLean winning it three times and Jessie Little once. The register holds two of Carol McLean's, in 1978 for a checker board and in 1979 for a box designed from a rock (newsletters 1978-fall p4 and 1979-october p8), and Jessie Little's of 1974.

Recorded recipients

Chatelaine Magazine Special Award

Awarded for the highest award attainable for leathercraft in the C.N.E.'s regular Hobby Classes.

Described directly in the 1980 newsletter as "the highest award attainable for leathercraft at the C.N.E. Regular hobby classes." That year it went to Jean Hunter for her wallet (Class 214).

Recorded recipients

Craft Ontario Award

Recorded recipients

Craftsman Ribbon

Awarded for outstanding craftsmanship.

Craftsman Ribbon is given at the Annual for articles displayed at the Annual Convention. The Fellows judge the pieces for outstanding craftsmanship. There is no monetary award for these awards. The pieces must have been made in the last year and not have been shown in any other Annual to qualify. The same honour was printed as the “Craftsman Award” from 1967 (`1967-fall`) through 1993, and once more in a Spring 2018 list; the two names overlap from 1977 for decades — the same judging of pieces by the Fellows, with no money attached — and are one honour under two names. Each row keeps the name its own paper printed.

Recorded recipients

Craftsman Ribbon Honourable Mention

Awarded for craftsmanship falling just short of a Craftsman Ribbon at an Annual Meeting.

A single Honourable Mention alongside the 33rd Annual Meeting's Craftsman Ribbons, to Gertrude Hilder for a leather flower, "Pitcher Plant (Newfoundland)". Not seen elsewhere in the archive's Annual-Meeting ribbon reports; distinct from the various Biennial-exhibition ("Leather 'XX") Honourable Mentions.

Recorded recipients

CSCL Award

Recorded recipients

CSCL Executive Award

Awarded for most functional piece at a Biennial.

Awarded at a Biennial exhibition for the most functional piece.

Recorded recipients

CSCL Executive Award — Honourable Mention

Awarded for Honourable Mention within the C.S.C.L. Executive Award category ($75, for the Most Functional Piece — renamed "Best Functional Piece" that year).

At the Leather '90 judging: "The first category on the published list is the C.S.C.L. EXECUTIVE AWARD of $75 for the Most Functional Piece... So we have changed this category to read: BEST Functional Piece... The whimsical originality of Lillian Kay's Glasses Rest, which she calls 'Nosey Parker' gets an HONORABLE MENTION in this category."

Recorded recipients

  • Lillian Kay 1990 "Nosey Parker" Glasses Rest — Best Functional Piece

Definitions transcribed from the award tables printed in the Canadian Leathercraft. Recipients taken from the Society’s competition records. Some awards were recorded under a shorthand name in one source and a formal name in the other; where the newsletter’s own definition makes the pair unambiguous they are shown here under the formal name.