Inuk Woman Wins National Quilting Award

(Canadian Quilters' Association)

 Veronica Puskas, who grew up in Nunavut’s Kivalliq region, won the award for Excellence in Work by a first-time exhibitor award at Quilt Canada’s national juried show in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her quilt, called Pillars of Strength, is based on a photo of her mother and grandmother at the Meliadine River near Rankin Inlet in 1950.

If I'd known this was happening just up the road from me I would have gone.

Puskas now lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake, my town.

More:  CBC News