Winnifred Comfort
← People of the Society · on record 1961–1980
Everything the Society’s own records say of Winnifred Comfort — 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 · 1996
Of Smithville; a founding member of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild in 1956, present at its 35th-anniversary charter-member gathering in 1991. "During 1996, the guild lost a founding member, Winnie Comfort from Smithville"; no further detail given by that source. The Society's certification records carry her as Winnifred Comfort (Associate, 1961); both forms are hers, and "Winnie" is kept here since it is what this source and the branch's own 1991 anniversary retrospective print.
Also recorded as Winnie Comfort
Certification
- Associate of the CSCL 1961
A founding member of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild in 1956, present at its 35th-anniversary charter-member gathering in 1991, she is carried in the Society's certification records as an Associate from 1961; her work won a prize at the Canadian Pacific Exhibition that year and a Craftsman Award in 1980. Her death, in 1996, was reported by the guild as the loss of a founding member.
From Spring 1992, page 2; and History of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild, 1956–2002 — the Guild’s own typescript, set out in full on the Hamilton branch history page, page 10.
Awards
- Canadian Pacific Exhibition prize (unspecified) 1961
- Craftsman Ribbon 1980