Rectangular white cotton flat bed sheet which is folded over on all edges and hemmed at both of the shorter ends; stamped with British Military arrow symbol.
Rectangular white cotton flat bed sheet which is folded over on all edges and hemmed at both of the shorter ends; stamped with British Military arrow symbol.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Owned by Miriam (Hartrick) Kelly; donated to museum by daughter Miriam Ruth Howard.
"DOMINION TEXTILE CO. LTD. // COLONIAL BRANCH // 1943"; a "C" with a broad arrow inside is stamped in black ink in one corner.
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0007
0007 Closet M
Length
215.0 cm
Width
137.3 cm
Depth
0.1 cm
Dimension Notes
Length 215.0 cm x Width 137.3 cm x Depth 0.1 cm
Condition Remarks
Almost no signs of wear; slight yellowing at edges; maker's stamp is quite faded
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Article
Website
Reference Comments
Doug Hildebrand, curator, Military Communications & Electronics Museum; Miriam Ruth Howard
Barbara Austin, "Managing Marketing in a Commodities
Manufacturing Firm: Dominion Textile," Brock University, https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v018/p0168-p0177.pdf.
Wikipedia, "Dominion Textile," accessed July 10th, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Textile
Research Facts
Owned and used by Nursing Sister Lt. Miriam Hartrick during World War II. Miriam (Hartrick) Kelly (1909-2001) graduated from Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing in 1931. She served in England, France and Italy during World War II. "C" with broad arrow denotes Canadian Army issue.
Dominion Textile was formed in 1905 from the merging of four smaller Canadian textile companies. It held a near monopoly in the mid/early twentieth century because of trade tariffs, but in 1948 duties on cotton goods from the U.K. and the U.S. were
almost entirely eliminated, resulting in serious competition to Canadian industry. The company became rebranded as "Domtex," and closed in 1998.