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Canada Packers Competition Quilts
Canada Packers was the largest producer of food products in Canada and operated processing and manufacturing facilities in Great Britain. In 1976 they used a travelling collection of quilts as a goodwill gesture to the agricultural community by recognizing quilting as a traditional and continuing craft.
The best quilt recoginized
The Beacon Herald
Monday, February 25, 1980
Photo by Helen Barker
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Mrs. Hattie Lawton of RR 2 St. Thomas received a cheque for $600 last week at the annual convention of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies in Toronto. The money came from Canada Packers Ltd.'s Murray Stewart as her prize money for entering the best quilt in the company's annual competition. There were entries from many of the socieities across Ontario. Mrs. Lawton's entry represented the best from the Lambton, Middlesex and Elgin counties area.
An unidentified woman displays the label on the Grand Champion quilt of 1981, Hawaiian Snowflake.
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St. Mary's Journal-Argus
Wed. Mar. 10, 1982
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Grace Drummond of Moncton, formerly of Downie Township, is the winner of the Agriculture Societies of Ontarion quilt competition. Her winning entry shown here was chosen from about 6,000 quilts. She received 96 points out of 100 in winning the contest. At right is Murray Stewart of Canada Packers.
Left, Murray Steward; right, Alice Carnegie.
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Left, Murray Steward; right, Doris Waddell
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Research about the Canada Packers collection has been published in a three part series by Judy Lyons titled "Revisiting the Canada Packers Quilt Collection and (3) Competition Quilt Collections".
"Part I –Revisiting the Canada Packers Quilt Collection and Three Competition Quilt Collections " The Canadian Quilter, Autumn 2011, Vol.30, No 1, pp. 60-61.
"Part II-The Manitoba Collection" The Canadian Quilter, Winter 2011, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 22-23.
"Part III-The Alberta Collection" The Canadian Quilter, Spring 2012, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 22-23.
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