Our Founding Members ...
The Founding Charter Members of EAC, Winnipeg, 2003: (Left to right) Ruby Ashdown, Dot From, Fran McKean, Eleanor Thomas, Judy Pilgrim-Stewart, Miriam Birkenthal, Jo Hewitt-Nickel, Carol McCann, and Shirley Tyderkie.
A small group of Winnipeg women ... stitchers, creators, designers, artists ... are responsible for bringing like-minded Canadian women together to create the Embroiderers Association of Canada ... with the Winnipeg Embroiderers' Guild as the foundation guild. Here are biographies of some of them:
- Leonida Leatherdale
- Shirley Tyderkie
- Jo Hewitt-Nickel
- Dot From
- Eleanor Thomas