Evelyn Burgess

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Evelyn Burgess

← People of the Society · on record 1967–1978

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Evelyn Burgess: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

In memoriam · 9 April 1978

Who “passed away on April 9, 1978, at her residence […] Waterdown, Ontario, while attending her animals, her labor of love.” Active in the C.S.C.L. Artisans and the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild: “A real loss to us all.” The tribute is by Muriel McKnight.

From Summer 1978, page 6.

Also recorded as E. Burgess

Branch

Hamilton · first recorded holding office in 1967

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1968

In 1967, as Hamilton Branch Secretary, she was printed as Miss E. Burgess. She showed one piece at Leather '74, the Society's exhibition at the Toronto Public Libraries' Learning Resources Centre, 666 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, 3-28 June 1974, whose catalogue prints her as Evelyn R. Burgess.

From Summer 1978, page 6; Spring 1967, page 12; and Leather ’74: exhibition catalogue, Toronto Public Libraries, page 5.

Served the Society as

2nd Vice-President 1977
Hamilton Branch Secretary 1967
Hamilton Branch President 1969–1970
Executive Council 1971–1975
Council 1976–1977
Vice-President 1977
Hamilton Branch Vice-President 1978

Demonstrations given

Upholstering stools 1968
18th Annual
From Summer 1968, page 2.

Where this comes from

Life and work

From the tribute Muriel McKnight wrote for the Society's newsletter. Further lines from newspaper clippings kept in the Society’s papers.

Background: She came to Hamilton from England in 1951.
From Summer 1978, page 6.
Work: In southern England during the Second World War she lectured on food production for the British Department of Agriculture. She later kept a small crafts shop at her home, selling her leatherwork and the produce of her land.
From Summer 1978, page 6.; After about twelve years with the Hamilton S.P.C.A. and three with the Ontario Humane Society, in April 1965 she opened "Unique Crafts", a small shop below her cottage west of Clappison's Corners on Highway 5, selling stained and modelled leatherwork.
From Many-talented fingers work at ‘Unique Crafts’.
Study: She learned the craft in art classes at a high school in Dover, England, during the First World War.
From Many-talented fingers work at ‘Unique Crafts’.
Teaching: She taught voice and violin, and for about five years taught leathercraft to senior citizens in Burlington and district.
From Summer 1978, page 6.
Community: She lectured for the Hamilton Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was active in the Hamilton Horticultural Society and was a member of her church choir.
From Summer 1978, page 6.

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