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Enduring Threads: A Community of Families
Fri, Sep 26
|Agassiz-Harrison Museum & Visitor Centre
Join us for this special exhibition featuring the Agassiz-Harrison community Quilt. Each of the 120 quilt squares has been uniquely designed and created by community members representing their own family, their hobbies and interests, history, or involvement in the area.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Agassiz-Harrison Museum & Visitor Centre, 7011 Pioneer Ave, Agassiz, BC V0M 0A6, Canada
About the event
Join us for this special exhibition featuring the Agassiz-Harrison community Quilt. Each of the 120 quilt squares has been uniquely designed and created by community members representing their own family.
Also featured is information on the history of the Agassiz Fall Fair & Corn Festival, as well as the local chapter of the Women's Institute founded in 1909.
Residents of the District of Kent and Harrison Hot Springs have always come together to celebrate and share agriculture and craft. Enduring Threads: A Community of Families, features some of the past and current ways people gathered for this purpose.
“The first Women’s Institute was founded in 1897 in Saltfleet (now Stoney Creek), Ontario, where a group of women gathered to hear Adelaide Hoodless speak on the importance of women engaging in formal domestic education and organizing a unified voice to advocate in the areas of education, family health and community…