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Nova Scotia Heritage Quilt Project
In the early 1990s, the Nova Scotia Museum began researching for an exhibition of the quilts in its collection. The outcome of this research was a national travelling exhibition and a book by the same name, Old Nova Scotian Quilts, authored by curator Scott Robson and researcher/writer Sharon M.H. MacDonald.
In 1992, the national conference for the Canadian Quilters’ Association assisted the newly formed Nova Scotia Heritage Quilt Project (NSHQP) with seed money.
The first documentation day occurred in Halifax in 1995. Over the course of a number of years the NSHQP conducted 22 registries and documented 1170 quilts. Documentations were restricted to pre-1970 quilts. Many Women’s Institutes (a national organization, mainly for farm women with local institutes in rural communities) made quilts in 1967 to commemorate Canada’s Centennial.
The Nova Scotia Heritage Quilt Project has a website, https://novascotiaheritagequiltproject.com/, where you can browse their records.
Publications:
In 1992, the national conference for the Canadian Quilters’ Association assisted the newly formed Nova Scotia Heritage Quilt Project (NSHQP) with seed money.
The first documentation day occurred in Halifax in 1995. Over the course of a number of years the NSHQP conducted 22 registries and documented 1170 quilts. Documentations were restricted to pre-1970 quilts. Many Women’s Institutes (a national organization, mainly for farm women with local institutes in rural communities) made quilts in 1967 to commemorate Canada’s Centennial.
The Nova Scotia Heritage Quilt Project has a website, https://novascotiaheritagequiltproject.com/, where you can browse their records.
Publications:
Houck, Carter. Nova Scotia Patchwork Patterns, Dover Publications, Inc., 1982.
Robson, Scott and Sharon MacDonald. Old Nova Scotian Quilts, Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1995.
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