Ecanada Pottery The following is copy of an e-mail
sent to the On-line Art Pottery Discussion Group regarding a
search for information on this pottery. << 6/19/00 As those of you know who don't
automatically delete messages about Ecanada by now, Sam and
I have been trying to track down info. I want to thank the
Toronto Library information service for some wonderful work.
There are some great resources out there. Turns out to be an
interesting story. Here is what they came up
with: "We were very fortunate to find a
reference to "Ecanada Art Pottery" in the Fine Arts files in
our Main Reference Centre. An article about Ecanada was
cited and we were able to track down some information for
you (listed below). From: Canadian Collector, Vol. l4,
No. 2, March/April l979, pp. 56-63. Ecanada Art Pottery of Hamilton,
Ontario was the genius of one man, George Emery Sr.
(l88l-l959). Mr. Emery was listed in the l925 City of
Hamilton Directory as Assistant Superintendent at the
Canadian Porcelain Company. In l926, he appears as a
Ceramist. In l945, he is listed as Manager of
the Ecanada Art Pottery at 206 Dundurn St., Hamilton, a
property he had acquired several years earlier. Until l944, the wares were fired in
the kilns at Canadian Porcelain Co. The pottery continued to
be listed in the directories at 202-206 Dundurn Street until
l952. By l953, the Ecanada Art Pottery was no longer in
operation. This is a small portion of the
article mentioned above, but hopefully, it will provide you
with further information. We are a "quick-reference" service
and are limited as to the amount of information we can
provide. We can suggest that if you wish to pursue this
information in a more complete form, you can request a copy
of the article from our fee-based service, Intellisearch
(email: intellisearch@tpl.toronto.on.ca) Because we have
found an exact reference for you, we suspect the cost would
be less because you would not be paying for specialized
research, but a straightforward document delivery service.
You can ask them what the price structure would be for you
to receive this (they also have a fax service). If you do not wish to do this, you
could also try obtaining a copy through your local library's
interlibrary loan process, giving them the exact reference
we have provided. We trust this information will be
of use to you. Thank you again for usingthe Answerline email
reference service. Carol
Our thanks to ginfor@hcslink.com for his persistence,
and to the Toronto Public Library for their
efforts.
Author: C. Peter Kaellgren:
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