More than 100 eager sewers showed up at Kiilinik Ilihakvik for a Canada Goose fabric giveaway in Cambridge Bay during the evening of June 4.
鈥淚t made a lot of community members really happy,鈥� said Mayor Pamela Gross, who鈥檚 also executive director of the Kitikmeot Heritage Society. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of sewers (here). It鈥檚 a great resource because we can use those modern materials in making parkas or whatever people want.鈥�
Cambridge Bay became the eighth community supported through the Canada Goose Resource Centre Program. The seven others are Pond Inlet, Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, Iglulik and Kuujjuaq, Que.
Canada Goose stated that the program鈥檚 inception came in 2007 when Pond Inlet sewers Meeka Atagootak and Rebecca Killiktee visited the company鈥檚 factory in Toronto to demonstrate their traditional Inuit sewing methods. They asked if they could bring home some scraps of fabric to fashion parkas for family and friends.
Since that time close to two million metres of fabric have been donated, according to Canada Goose.
Gross said she鈥檇 like to see the company鈥檚 representatives return to the community again someday.
鈥淭he partnership is there and we hope there can be more events happening in the future, different kinds of events, possibly,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e鈥檒l see what鈥檚 in store, but we鈥檙e hopeful.鈥�
