History of Puppetry
in Canada
- Objects and Documents
- John Conway
- Forsyth's Marionettes
- Edith Gardner
- Muriel Heddle
- Violet and David Keogh
- John and Linda Keogh
- Micheline Legendre
- Hal and Renné Marquette
- Mark Saunders
- Harry Smith
- Peggy Specht
- Rosalynde Stearn
- Joseph and Bryan Vaughan
- Miscellaneous Artists and Companies – First Half of the Twentieth Century
Edith Gardner
Edith Gardner, a Home Economics teacher in Hamilton, Ontario, worked independently of the professional puppeteers' circle. Her interest in puppetry began in the 1940s, and she became active in the Hamilton Marionette Club, the Southwestern Ontario Puppetry Guild and the Ontario Puppetry Association. One of her puppets' most interesting characteristics is that their faces were often portraits of people she knew.
Adapted from Figuratively Speaking : Puppetry in Ontario by Ken McKay, copyright 1990. Courtesy of the Ontario Puppetry Association and Ken McKay.
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