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Awards and Ribbons (page 7 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.

Moore Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award (Best Leather Article from a First Time Exhibitor)

Awarded for the best leather article from an exhibitor showing for the first time.

At Ontario Crafts '85 (MacDonald Block Gallery, November 1985, juried by Alan Elder, George Fry and Shelagh Stewart), won by Barry Gonneau for his wood-and-leather fireplace bellows, "Loon in Flight." The same piece won a second, separate award that show, the Tandy Leather Company Award, for a companion bellows titled "Woman Blowing."

Recorded recipients

  • Barry Gonneau 1985 Fireplace bellows, "Loon in Flight" (wood and leather)

Moore-Pearsal Award for Best Belt

Awarded for the best belt at a Society biennial exhibition, a Moore-Pearsall gift certificate award.

At Leather 2004, won by Nancy Durham for a Geometric Coloured Belt ("exquisite finishing techniques — feels wonderful in the hand"). The newsletter prints this award's name once, over both the belt and carving winners; a note on the page confirms the Society's own Leather 2004 exhibition programme names them as two separate awards, "Best Belt" and "Best Carving" (see that entry), both spelled "Moore-Pearsal," one L.

Recorded recipients

Moore-Pearsal Award for Best Carving

Awarded for the best carved entry at a Society biennial exhibition, a Moore-Pearsall gift certificate award.

At Leather 2004, won by Paul Kitchener for a Gun Belt and Holster ("magnificent three dimensional carving — a wonderful mastery of colour"). See "Moore-Pearsal Award for Best Belt" for why this is filed as a separate award from the belt prize, though the newsletter's own layout prints one heading over both.

Recorded recipients

Moore-Pearsall Award

Awarded for best belt.

Awarded for the best belt in the competition.

Recorded recipients

Moore-Pearsall Award — Honourable Mention

Awarded for further recognition in the Moore-Pearsall category (Best Tooled or Carved Article), beyond the winning entry.

At Leather '90 (Woodstock Art Gallery, the Society's 11th Biennial, coinciding with its 40th Anniversary Annual), the Moore-Pearsall Leather Company offered two awards, Best Box and Best Tooled or Carved Article; the latter's winner was Cliff McTavish's knitting bag. Robert Muma's published review gives the Honourable Mention in that same category to Cliff McTavish again, for a Morocco Card Case: "a masterpiece of flawless detail... we could not find one stitch or mark on it that was not intended."

Recorded recipients

  • Cliff McTavish 1990 Morocco Card Case — Best Tooled or Carved Article

Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award

Awarded for best use of leather in a practical article.

At the same 1985 Ontario Crafts show, the full name printed is "the Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. award for 'Best Use of Leather in a Practicle [sic] Article'" — the Society's own typo, kept as printed. Won by Dave Trotter for a cowhide box. The same show, sentence, winner and item are also filed under "Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award (Best Use of Leather in a Practical Article)"; the two names are very likely one award, kept apart until that is settled.

Recorded recipients

  • Dave Trotter 1985 Box, cowhide ("Best Use of Leather in a Practical Article")

Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award (Best Use of Leather in a Practical Article)

Awarded for best use of leather in a practical article.

Same 1985 Ontario Crafts show, same sentence as "Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award": Dave Trotter, cowhide box. The same show, sentence, winner and item are also filed under the bare "Moore-Pearsall Leathers Ltd. Award"; the two names are very likely one award, kept apart until that is settled.

Recorded recipients

Non-Traditional Piece Award

Awarded for best non-traditional piece.

Awarded for the best non-traditional piece; given in memory of the late Hilda Darbyshire FCSCL.

Recorded recipients

OCC Design Award (1 Year Craft Professional Membership)

Awarded for design recognition from the Ontario Crafts Council, awarded as a one-year OCC Craft Professional membership rather than cash.

Listed among the Society's standing Annual Awards as the "Ontario Crafts Council Design Award (1 year OCC membership)". At the 2011 Annual, won by Rod Martinez for a Starfish Stand — the same year, and the same maker, who separately won the Irva Ford Memorial Award for Best Moulded Piece for a Starfish.

Recorded recipients

OCC Design Award of Excellence

Awarded for not a CSCL award — an earlier Ontario Crafts Council prize of David McPherson's.

Mentioned only in passing in a reprinted Port Colborne Tribune profile of David McPherson, "Local Leathercrafter Wins Prestigious Award": "McPherson had already won an OCC design award of excellence in 1984, thus making him eligible to compete" for the invitation-only Ontario Crafts '87 show.

Recorded recipients

Ont. Crafts Council Award for Most Original Design

Recorded recipients

Ontario Craft Foundation EEDEE Award

Awarded for one of the top four prizes at the Ontario Craft Foundation's Annual Meeting.

"Following dinner, the EEDEE awards were presented and our own Irva Ford was one of the top four winners. Irva submitted a belt for which she was awarded a beautiful trophy accompanied by a sizeable cheque." Presented 12 May at the Ontario Craft Foundation's Annual Meeting, Ontario Trades and Tourism Centre, Toronto — not a CSCL event. ("EEDEE" is printed exactly so on the page.)

Recorded recipients

Ontario Crafts Council Award

Awarded for best design at the Annual.

This is given for the best design at the Annual. This is selected by the Fellows. The award is a one-year membership to the Ontario Crafts Council. The Application for OCC along with a picture of the winning article is sent in by the CSCL for the winning entry.

Recorded recipients

Ontario Crafts Council Award — Honourable Mention

Awarded for Honourable Mention within the Ontario Crafts Council Award category ($50, for Most Original Design) at the Leather '90 judging.

"The third category... the ONTARIO CRAFTS COUNCIL AWARD OF $50 for Most Original Design goes to Ruth Haig... An HONORABLE MENTION in this category goes to David McPherson for his Blue Leather vase, a very simple but original and well-crafted piece."

Recorded recipients

Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition First Prize

Awarded for first place in one of the competition's categories.

The Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee ran a province-wide Souvenir and Handcraft Competition and Exhibition, entries closing 31 January 1963. It was open to every resident of Ontario, entries could be a drawing, a finished example or a written concept, and the judging panel of five — two designers, a manufacturer, a retailer and a consumer — weighed suitability as a souvenir, fitness for the purpose, suitability for quantity production by manufacturers or cottage industries, market acceptance and degree of local identification. The awards announced were one Grand Prize of $500.00 and ten First Prizes of $100.00. The Society took the competition seriously as a chance to raise the standard of made-in-Ontario souvenirs: fifteen of its members submitted articles — Fred Brown, Joan Carroll, May Corbett, Clara Cavanagh, Winnifred Comfort, Irva Ford, Anne Hook, Nora Huyck, Lillian Neelands, Jean Newton, Clarice Packham, Sadie Roebuck, Olivia Smith, Helen Wheaton and Janis Zalitis — though leather placed in only one category. The Spring newsletter printed fourteen and left Joan Carroll out; the Society corrected itself in the Summer issue — “it was stated that 14 members submitted articles when in fact there were 15 as Joan Carroll also submitted articles” — and the corrected list is the one given here. Ten First Prizes of $100.00 were offered, one to each category, and the rules allowed the panel to withhold a prize where no entry qualified.

Recorded recipients

  • Jean G. Burke 1963 Jewellery, individual, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. — $100.00 from Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee

Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition Grand Prize

Awarded for the single best entry in the Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition, 1963.

The Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee ran a province-wide Souvenir and Handcraft Competition and Exhibition, entries closing 31 January 1963. It was open to every resident of Ontario, entries could be a drawing, a finished example or a written concept, and the judging panel of five — two designers, a manufacturer, a retailer and a consumer — weighed suitability as a souvenir, fitness for the purpose, suitability for quantity production by manufacturers or cottage industries, market acceptance and degree of local identification. The awards announced were one Grand Prize of $500.00 and ten First Prizes of $100.00. The Society took the competition seriously as a chance to raise the standard of made-in-Ontario souvenirs: fifteen of its members submitted articles — Fred Brown, Joan Carroll, May Corbett, Clara Cavanagh, Winnifred Comfort, Irva Ford, Anne Hook, Nora Huyck, Lillian Neelands, Jean Newton, Clarice Packham, Sadie Roebuck, Olivia Smith, Helen Wheaton and Janis Zalitis — though leather placed in only one category. The Spring newsletter printed fourteen and left Joan Carroll out; the Society corrected itself in the Summer issue — “it was stated that 14 members submitted articles when in fact there were 15 as Joan Carroll also submitted articles” — and the corrected list is the one given here. The Grand Prize of $500.00 went to a jeweller from outside the Society.

Recorded recipients

  • Jean G. Burke 1963 jewellery taking as its subject the pre-historic Indian rock drawings of Quetico Park, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. — $500.00 from Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee

Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition Honourable Mention

Awarded for an entry named by the judges below the prize winners in its category.

The Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee ran a province-wide Souvenir and Handcraft Competition and Exhibition, entries closing 31 January 1963. It was open to every resident of Ontario, entries could be a drawing, a finished example or a written concept, and the judging panel of five — two designers, a manufacturer, a retailer and a consumer — weighed suitability as a souvenir, fitness for the purpose, suitability for quantity production by manufacturers or cottage industries, market acceptance and degree of local identification. The awards announced were one Grand Prize of $500.00 and ten First Prizes of $100.00. The Society took the competition seriously as a chance to raise the standard of made-in-Ontario souvenirs: fifteen of its members submitted articles — Fred Brown, Joan Carroll, May Corbett, Clara Cavanagh, Winnifred Comfort, Irva Ford, Anne Hook, Nora Huyck, Lillian Neelands, Jean Newton, Clarice Packham, Sadie Roebuck, Olivia Smith, Helen Wheaton and Janis Zalitis — though leather placed in only one category. The Spring newsletter printed fourteen and left Joan Carroll out; the Society corrected itself in the Summer issue — “it was stated that 14 members submitted articles when in fact there were 15 as Joan Carroll also submitted articles” — and the corrected list is the one given here. The rules provided that “in addition to the prize winning designs, a number of entries will be given Honourable Mention”. It carries no money. Leather reached only one category, Jewellery, and only at this level.

Recorded recipients

Ontario Souvenir and Handcraft Competition Idea

Awarded for an entry shown in the exhibition's “Idea” section.

The Ontario Souvenir Promotion Committee ran a province-wide Souvenir and Handcraft Competition and Exhibition, entries closing 31 January 1963. It was open to every resident of Ontario, entries could be a drawing, a finished example or a written concept, and the judging panel of five — two designers, a manufacturer, a retailer and a consumer — weighed suitability as a souvenir, fitness for the purpose, suitability for quantity production by manufacturers or cottage industries, market acceptance and degree of local identification. The awards announced were one Grand Prize of $500.00 and ten First Prizes of $100.00. The Society took the competition seriously as a chance to raise the standard of made-in-Ontario souvenirs: fifteen of its members submitted articles — Fred Brown, Joan Carroll, May Corbett, Clara Cavanagh, Winnifred Comfort, Irva Ford, Anne Hook, Nora Huyck, Lillian Neelands, Jean Newton, Clarice Packham, Sadie Roebuck, Olivia Smith, Helen Wheaton and Janis Zalitis — though leather placed in only one category. The Spring newsletter printed fourteen and left Joan Carroll out; the Society corrected itself in the Summer issue — “it was stated that 14 members submitted articles when in fact there were 15 as Joan Carroll also submitted articles” — and the corrected list is the one given here. This is not a prize either. Alongside the articles they “Recommended” the judges set aside articles they considered “Ideas” — pieces shown for the method or the notion behind them rather than as finished souvenirs. Recorded for the same reason as the Recommended list.

Recorded recipients

  • Anne Hook 1963 coaster with the trillium design, a lino-cut
  • Anne Hook 1963 leather tray with a rolled edge, the design applied from an etched copper plate
  • Clarice Packham 1963 thin fine morocco wallet with trillium design

P.N.E. Bronze Medal

Awarded for not a CSCL award — Robert Muma's own pre-Society competition record.

Printed in the same 1952 "Who's Who" profile of Robert Muma, recalling his record from before the Society's founding: "...first prize and bronze medal at 1948 PNE..."

Recorded recipients

P.N.E. First Prize

Awarded for not a CSCL award — Robert Muma's own pre-Society competition record.

Printed in the same 1952 "Who's Who" profile of Robert Muma, recalling his record from before the Society's founding: "...first prize and bronze medal at 1948 PNE..."

Recorded recipients

Pacific National Exhibition

Awarded for first place in a leather class at the Pacific National Exhibition.

The Pacific National Exhibition at Vancouver ran an annual handicraft competition in which leather was a section. The Fall 1964 newsletter lists the Society's members who won there — eight members across the trophy and placed classes and two honourable mentions — and names the article each won with, but gives no prize money and no donor. It is the only Pacific National Exhibition prize list the archive holds for 1964; the papers record the Society at the Exhibition in other years too (1948, 1951, 1961 and 1962). The classes it names are ladies' gloves, men's gloves, book ends, a filigree belt, a leather ring binder, purses and a stationery case; the article is recorded here, the class only where the page states one separately.

Recorded recipients

  • Dorothy Proctor 1964 First — Ladies' gloves, Toronto, Ont., CSCL
  • Jean Agnew 1964 First — Book ends, Downsview, Ont., CSCL
  • Clarice Packham 1964 Second — Men's gloves, Weston, Ont., CSCL
  • Helen Wheaton 1964 Second — Filigree belt, London, Ont., CSCL
  • Nora Huyck 1964 Second — Leather ring binder, Newmarket, Ont., CSCL
  • Clara Cavanagh 1964 Third — Stationery case, Barrie, Ont., CSCL
  • Jean Newton 1964 Third — Navy purse, Toronto, Ont., CSCL
  • Anne Hook 1964 Honourable Mention — Gavel, Toronto, Ont., CSCL
  • Harold Wilson 1964 Honourable Mention — Mask, Hamilton, Ont., CSCL

Pacific National Exhibition 1st Prize, Carved Leather Class

Awarded for the top prize in the Carved Leather class at the Pacific National Exhibition.

One of Reta Larmour's awards for "winning highest honours at this year's Pacific National Exhibition": "1st in Carved Leather Class (a carved handbag in dolphin design, finished in red-wine tone)."

Recorded recipients

  • Reta Larmour 1951 carved handbag, dolphin design, finished in red-wine tone

Pacific National Exhibition Bedford Cup Trophy

Awarded for the best individual leather article at the Pacific National Exhibition.

A cup trophy given at the Pacific National Exhibition for the best individual leather article in the show. The archive holds one award of it: Reta Larmour of Grimsby, for a purse, in 1964. The Pacific National Exhibition at Vancouver ran an annual handicraft competition in which leather was a section. The Fall 1964 newsletter lists the Society's members who won there — eight members across the trophy and placed classes and two honourable mentions — and names the article each won with, but gives no prize money and no donor. It is the only Pacific National Exhibition prize list the archive holds for 1964; the papers record the Society at the Exhibition in other years too (1948, 1951, 1961 and 1962). The classes it names are ladies' gloves, men's gloves, book ends, a filigree belt, a leather ring binder, purses and a stationery case; the article is recorded here, the class only where the page states one separately.

Recorded recipients

  • Reta Larmour 1951 carved handbag, dolphin design, finished in red-wine tone (best individual leathercraft entry)
  • Reta Larmour 1964 Purse (best individual leather article), Grimsby, Ont., CSCL

Pacific National Exhibition Prize

Awarded for an individual member's article shown in the C.S.C.L.'s exhibit at the Pacific National Exhibition.

In 1962 the C.S.C.L. was invited by the Pacific National Exhibition's Craft and Hobby Show manager, Norman C. M. Collingwood, to send an exhibit to Vancouver (19 August-4 September); 14 members sent 40 articles and the exhibit as a whole was awarded the bronze medal, described as “the top award for leather.” Alongside that group medal, six individual members were separately “awarded prizes for their articles” without a stated placing: Fred Brown (Guest Book), Clara Cavanagh (Picture Frame), Nora Huyck (Inlaid Covered Box and, separately, a Bound Book), Frank Torry (item not printed — a gap in the original typesetting) and Janis Zalitis (Writing Case).

Recorded recipients

Panache! Award

Recorded recipients

Participation Ribbon

Awarded for taking part at the Annual.

Announced for the 2006 Annual in the CSCL Executive’s own meeting highlights: members should “watch for Participation Ribbons and Special Draw for all who participate,” printed alongside the reason — the Society was “determined to make members feel part of the group and encourage all members to put articles on the tables.” Not a placing or a judged prize: it goes with entering, not with winning.

Recorded recipients

Participation Ribbon (Novice)

Recorded recipients

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.