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This is a mini-project for Quebec Quilt Registry that pulls together quilts that simply include public notes. Some of these notes contain only technical or construction details, while others may add meaningful context to quilts in this collection, hinting at stories behind the quilts, makers, family, relationships, locations and time periods. Return to browse the database.


Registry Number: 5639
Pattern: Double windmill Variation with pieced sails (pieced patches) to create an octagon
Maker: Louis Cousineau family member
Year Made: 2020
Flower Sacks from possibly Louis's son Hervey Flour Mill. Possibly same maker as 5640 and 5641.

Registry Number: 5092
Pattern: Log cabin
Maker: Charlotte (Athelstan QC)
Year Made: 1925
This log cabin quilt was made for Wesley Jamieson for a gift upon his birth November 1, 1925. It has never been used and has been stored in 3 different cedar trunks up until today. Wesley willed this quilt to his grand daughter Sarah Elizabeth Grant (born Aug. 14, 1975). Wesley passed Oct. 2, 2007.

Registry Number: 1548
Pattern: DRESDEN PLATE
Maker: Unknown (NEW CARLISLE QC)
Year Made: 1935
THIS QUILT WAS MADE BY THE LADIES AID WOMEN IN 1935 FROM KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, THEN DONATED IT TO SOLDIERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, CAMPBELL NEW BRUNSWICK. A NEW HOSPITAL WAS BUILT AND THIS QUILT WAS DONATED TO THE HAMILTON HOME MUSEUM & PUT IN DISPLAY EVERY SUMMER FOR THE TOURISTS AND VISITORS, TO SEE. ANY ONE WHO WISHED TO PAY 25c COULD HAVE THEIR NAME EMBROIDERED ON THE QUILT

Registry Number: 5065
Pattern: One patch
Maker: Elizabeth Helen (Elgin QC)
Year Made: 1945
Married at 20 years of age in 1946.

Registry Number: 5102
Pattern: 4 x variation
Maker: Hermine (Montréal QC)
Year Made: 1945
"Utilisée jusqu'à épuisement dans le lit de mon petit frère." Joanne Ratelle

Registry Number: 5519
Pattern: Checkerboard
Maker: Minnie Ida (Jerusalem, Queens County NB)
Year Made: 1950
Minnie Vallis made a quilt for each of her grandchildren. She had 18 grandchildren.

Registry Number: 1202
Pattern: Grandmother's Garden
Maker: Jetta Augusta Mitton Beaman-Stewart (Abercorn QC)
Year Made: 1953
Used leftover material from aprons, dresses, et cetera. See attached paperwork for more information. See #1201

Registry Number: 1201
Pattern: Grandmother's Garden
Maker: Jetta Augusta Mitton Beaman-Stewart (Abercorn QC)
Year Made: 1953
Used leftover material from aprons, dresses, et cetera. See attached paperwork for more information.

Registry Number: 5111
Pattern: Ohio star - sawtooth
Maker: Alice Elizabeth (Saint John NB)
Year Made: 1954
Doll's quilt (carriage blanket).

Registry Number: 5107
Pattern: 9 patch
Maker: Alice Elizabeth (Saint John NB)
Year Made: 1958
Alice Hazen made a quilt for each of her 15 grandchildren, 8 of the grandchildren were born in Quebec Canada of her eldest daughter Bernice Alice Hazen Camacho. Alice made her last quilt in 1984 for her youngest grandson John Hazen of Saint John NB

Registry Number: 5116
Pattern: Square in a square variation
Maker: Alice Elizabeth (Saint John NB)
Year Made: 1968
Bernice (the owner) started to make the quilt herself but didn't understand how to and sent it to her mother to complete.

Registry Number: 5605
Pattern: Variante Virevent
Maker: Ange-Marie (Ascot Corner QC)
Year Made: 1970
Ma mère faisait de la couture à la maison pour une usine. Ma tante était la contremaître et lui donnait des restes de tissu. Du fortrel dans ce cas.

Registry Number: 1179
Pattern: Unknown
Maker: Lina Bergeron
Year Made: 1980
Mrs. Bergeron is thought to live in the Lennoxville area.

Registry Number: 4942
Pattern: Trip around the world
Maker: Susan (Cowansville QC)
Year Made: 1980
Many squares were remnants from maker's children's clothes.

Registry Number: 5631
Pattern: Rob Peter to Pay Paul
Maker: Gabrielle (Lennoxville QC)
Year Made: 1987
With matching pillow. Made for Jean-Philip Fortier.

Registry Number: 5095
Pattern: Equilateral triangles
Maker: Adaire (Saint Lambert QC)
Year Made: 1988
"The Common Cold Adaire Chown Schlatter, St. Lambert, Québec The desing comes from the Scientific Journal T.I.B.S. (see signatures of the original researchers on back). The colours and fabric reflect this particular common disease. It is an interesting use of the equilateral triangle. Machine pieced and hand quilted. It was exhibited at St. Catharines Canadian Contemporary Quilt Exhibition 1988.

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Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institue for Studies in Canadian Art

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