Clarice Packham
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This page is a biography of Clarice Packham. The Society’s own record of Clarice Packham — the offices held, the standings conferred and the awards won — is on the register page.
Clarice Packham died in July 1991, living into her nineties. The following year the Society's newsletter carried this tribute, submitted by Nora Huyck and Gladys Riddell. It is reproduced as printed.
CLARICE PACKHAM died July 1991, living into her nineties. She was a Fellow and a Life Member.
Clarice Packham, Edith Roscoe, and Isabel Hanna started the Weston Leathercraft Guild. The Guild merged and she became a Charter member of the CSCL. The Packham home was the scene of many meetings and classes, giving many workshops and many demonstrations to guild members. She also taught classes at Weston Collegiate. Clarice learned her glove making in the USA and was also taught by F.O. BAIRD. Being equal to any challenge, she made decorative gloves; practical gloves; and also gloves for crippled hands. Clarice was also an expert in other areas of leathercraft, including design. She was top judge at the CNE and also won numerous prizes for her leather articles, there and from the guild.
Submitted by Nora Huyck and Gladys Riddell.
The People Register remembers her as a superb glovemaker, remembered for her generosity to novice members. She was named a Fellow at the 8 May 1955 Annual Meeting, having become an Associate in 1953.
Printed in Canadian Leathercraft, Summer 1992; submitted by Nora Huyck and Gladys Riddell.