Photo 1: 1926 Baie St-Paul, Québec / Photo 2: Spinning wheel as used by habitants, Sorel District, P.Q. / Photo 3: 1936, 82 year-old lady with her 125 year-old spinning wheel / Photo 4: Cape Breton, N.S. – Old woman with spinning wheel. year unknown (All photos obtained from Library and Archives of Canada)
Gwen Tuinman is a novelist, born and raised in rural southern Ontario. She draws on her psychology background to create complex characters shaped by nature, nurture and circumstance. Her storytelling is influenced her interest in bygone days.
Agreed. If the age hadn’t been recorded in the Library and Archive of Canada I would have questioned it. The spinning wheel must have travelled through a few different hands. That would be a story in itself.
Gwen Tuinman is a novelist, born and raised in rural southern Ontario. She draws on her psychology background to create complex characters shaped by nature, nurture and circumstance. Her storytelling is influenced by an interest in bygone days. Gwen lives near Toronto with her husband and two chickens.
May 8, 2016 at 7:38 am
Gwen, very nice curating of these pictures. Amazed at the durability of the 125-year old spinning wheel.
May 14, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Agreed. If the age hadn’t been recorded in the Library and Archive of Canada I would have questioned it. The spinning wheel must have travelled through a few different hands. That would be a story in itself.
October 17, 2016 at 11:11 pm
It’s fun to see the pictures of the different spinning wheels, and the women who used. them.