Marie Jonasson
← People of the Society · on record 1971–1975
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of Marie Jonasson: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
In memoriam ·
Named among the same four Hamilton Guild losses. Likely the same "Marie Jonasson" named Hamilton Branch Treasurer in 1975 (from the 26th Annual Meeting programme, 1976); the spelling is kept as printed here, the two not read as one name.
From Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 1978: programme, hosted by Toronto Branch, page 15.
Also recorded as M. Jonasson, Marie Jonassen
Branch
Hamilton · first recorded holding office in 1975
Their work won a Best in Class award in the Canadian National Exhibition's Women's Division in 1971. A “Marie Jonassen” was named among the Hamilton branch's four losses reported to its 1978 annual meeting.
From Winter 1971–72, page 10; Winter 1971–72, page 12; and Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 1978: programme, hosted by Toronto Branch, page 15.
Served the Society as
- Hamilton Branch Treasurer 1975
Awards
- Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft Prize (Women's Division) 1971
Where this comes from
Life and work
From the Hamilton Spectator's account of her C.N.E. prizes, 1971.
- Background
- She and her husband, Karl, came to Canada from Germany about 1954 and lived in Hamilton.
- Study
- She took up leathercraft about 1969 in Irva Ford's adult-education classes at Westdale Secondary School, with her daughter Karen, after a colleague of her husband's made a leather picture.
- Other crafts
- She hooked rugs, made a hanging lamp of orange plastic set with leaves and insects, and worked kogin, a Japanese embroidery, as well as other embroidery, crochet, knitting and sewing.
From Mother, daughter win prizes in CNE handicraft competition.