History & Records
Beyond the newsletters, the Society kept minutes and reports of its annual general meetings, and now and then set down its own history. These documents are preserved here, transcribed in full so that they can be read and searched.
History & biography
Accounts of the Society and its members — beginning with its own, written in the year it began — and indexes of the people it was made of and the awards it gave.
The Society’s histories
Canadian Leathercraft – No. 1
The bulletin the Society began with, and its own account of how it started: a group of leathercraftsmen met in Toronto in the spring of 1950, and drafted a constitution over the 1950–51 season.
Read →Fifty Years of Leather Art
Written for the 50th anniversary: how seventeen leathercrafters met in Toronto in June 1950 to create standards for a craft that had none in Canada.
Read →Memory Lane — the Society's first Executive
The Society's earliest known Executive — Dr. Ralph K. Larmour and five officers — recovered from a box of 1950s letterhead.
Read →The list of Associates and Fellows
The Society's own roll of certified members, giving the year each was elected Associate and Fellow.
Read →The Larmour slide library
René Hackstetter's report on the Society's slide collection, catalogued by Dr. Ralph K. Larmour from 1951.
Read →Branch histories
History of the Woodstock Branch
The branch in its own words: founded 1968 after a meeting in Michigan, first president Beula Reynolds, Weston Trophy winners of 1975.
Read →History of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild, 1956–2002
Forty-six years of the Society’s largest branch, year by year, from its inaugural meeting on Bay Street South to its jubilee.
Read →Biographies & memoirs
Biographies
The members the Society wrote about at length — Artisans of Yester Year, Fellows’ profiles, tributes, and the memoirs written as the Society closed.
Browse →In Memoriam
The members whose loss the Society recorded, with the notices it printed for them.
Browse →The Society’s papers
Annual General Meetings
Invitations, notices, reports and minutes of the Society’s annual meetings, each transcribed in full with its original PDF linked.
Browse →Conventions, competitions & workshops
Programmes, registration forms, competition notices and workshop announcements — the working papers of the Society’s gatherings.
Browse →Announcements & reports
Notices and write-ups posted at the time — convention invitations and schedules, meeting reports, and workshop announcements.
Browse →Indexes
People of the Society
Everyone the Society’s own records name: the offices they held, year by year, and the awards their work won.
Browse →Awards and Ribbons
The awards the Society gave, as its newsletter defined them — the Weston Trophy, the Robert Muma and Irva Ford memorials, the Craftsman and Salon ribbons — and who received them.
Browse →Annual General Meetings
Invitations, notices, reports and minutes, 1997–2025. Each is transcribed in full; the original PDF is linked from every page. Personal contact details have been removed.
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1997
47th Annual — Convention Programme and Annual Report
12 pages · original PDF, 20216 KB
Conventions, competitions & workshops
Programmes, registration forms, competition notices and workshop announcements — the working papers of the Society’s gatherings.
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2024
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2020
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2016
Announcements & reports
Notices and write-ups posted at the time — convention invitations and schedules, meeting reports, and workshop announcements.
2020
2019
CSCL 69th Annual Convention – registration, schedule, workshops, awards, hotel info
PDF invitation: CSCL-Registration-and-Program-for-2019-annual-event.pdf…
2019 Annual Convention2018
INVITATION – 2018 Canadian Society of Creative Leathercraft Annual Convention
The Mississauga Society of Creative Leathercraft would like to invite you to the Canadian Society of Creative Leathercraft Annual Convention. Please mark your calendar for April 27 – 29, 2018 because we’ll be partying it…
2017
Missisauga Guild – June 2017 meeting and workshop
Our Mini workshop was a continuation of our lesson in stamping & design. The samples we made during this meeting will be used for colouring and finishing techniques in the next meeting.…
Annual Meeting Report – CSCL 67th Annual General Meeting – Hamilton May 5, 6 & 7, 2017
Annual Meeting Report – CSCL 67th Annual General Meeting Hamilton May 5, 6 & 7, 2017…
CSCL 67th Annual General Meeting – Hamilton May 5 – 7, 2017
The Annual Weekend commenced with table display set-ups on Friday afternoon, Society branches from Hamilton, Mississauga, Norland and Members-at-Large were represented. The meeting room was convivial and the table space…
CSCL 67th Annual General Meeting – Awards – May 2017
Best of Show – Sean Dalgetty – gun case Best Fellow Piece – Sean Dalgetty – gun case Best General – Barbara Chynoweth – flask Best Buckle – Bob Pfister Best Colour (Robert Muma) – Bob Pfister – hand carving Betty Heacock…
Mississauga Guild – May 2017 meeting and mini workshop
MSCL monthly meeting and mini workshop – carving & stamping. The carving(s) we make during this meeting will be used for colouring and finishing techniques for the following meeting on June 7th.…
CSCL 67th Annual Convention – bring your articles before Friday May 5, 2017
In preparation for the CSCL 67th Annual Convention – should you wish to have any of your leather work judged for the prizes in CSCL Awards Categories, please bring your articles to your guild to make sure your items get…
Weston Trophy Judging April 23, 2017
Today judges marked items presented by CSCL branches for Weston Trophy competition. There were also items sent by members for their Associate or Fellow status.…
Hinged Leather Box – CSCL workshop
Today Lauch Harrison (ACSCL) run the Hinged Leather Box workshop. The workshop’s details were announced earlier here: https://canadianleathercraft.org/hinged-leather-box-cscl-workshop/ Every participant went home with a…
Hinged box by David Trotter
Tomorrow CSCL will run the “Hinged Box” workshop, and today we waned to show a beautiful hinged box made by David Trotter.…
Leather Waxcoated Mug, Blackjacks & Leather Bottells – CSCL Workshop
Saturday, April 8, 2017 10:00am to 4:00pm…
CSCL 67th Annual Convention Weekend
The Hamilton Leather Guild invites you to the 67th Annual Convention Weekend for The Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft…