Elva Vanetta Parks Myers
Bagdad, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canadian, 1901 - 1972
Canadian, 1901 - 1972
| Death Place: | Sussex |
| Death County: | Kings County |
| Death Province: | New Brunswick |
| Death Country: | Canada |
| Biography: | Elva Vanetta Parks Myers moved to Avonmore, Kings County, New Brunswick. She attended Midland School for grades one to eight. She married Elmer Herbert Myers in 1920 and lived in the village of Norton until 1971. She hooked dozens of mats from the 1930s to the 1960s, most of which were sold to supplement the family income. She was a homemaker. Elva belonged to the Women's Institute where their only means of fundraising was making quilts and hooking rugs. Her mother also hooked. There were a dozen potato barrels kept in the loft of the barn which were filled with old clothes. She would go through the barrels looking for colors to hook into her mats. Her mother had chickens which she would take to the Saint John City Market along with a rug to sell. Her eldest daughter, Mary, had a stall at the market called Longs and she also sold many of her mother's mats. She used to sell them for ten dollars each to American tourists. Visitors staying at the motel in Norton would come to the house to buy a mat. She would take them right off the floor and sell them. The burlap came from feed bags from her father's farm and she would draw her own patterns. |
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