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Evelyn Burgess

← People of the Society · on record 1967–1978

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

In memoriam · 9 April 1978

Who “passed away on April 9, 1978, at her residence R. R. #22 Waterdown, Ontario, while attending her animals, her labor of love.” She came to Hamilton from England in 1951; her talents, the Summer 1978 newsletter says, were many — she taught voice and violin, lectured for the Hamilton Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and, in southern England during the Second World War, on food production for the British Department of Agriculture. She kept a small crafts shop at her home selling her leatherwork and the produce of her land, and for about five years taught leathercraft to senior citizens in Burlington and district. Active in the C.S.C.L. Artisans, the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild and the Hamilton Horticultural Society, and a member of her church choir: “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

An Associate of the Society from 1968, of Hamilton, she served as President and later Vice-President of the Hamilton Branch and on the Society's Executive Council through the 1970s; in 1967 she was the branch's Secretary, 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. She died in 1978, remembered as having taught voice and violin and kept a small crafts shop selling her leatherwork.

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

This name in the index of people →