Canuck Pottery, Foley Pottery, Estriceram Pottery, & Ecanada Pottery Canada - 15th in Canadiana Series
Canuck Pottery was established as a continuation of Foley Pottery c1938 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Foley Pottery began c1890's by James Foley, born in England in 1857, and continued under his son Fenwick Foley in the Foley residence. Fenwick's sons Percy and Alponse started Canuck Pottery with a new factory building about 2 miles from their home. Originally known for making coloured jugs for perfume and souvenir novelties, they began creating dinnerware and decorative items naming the line Evangeline Ware. An early ad from the 1940's touted their use of Fundy clays handcrafted by decendents of the original Acadian settlers.
A pair of Evangeline handy pin dishes, or individual dip plates, in dark brown with a spun white drip spray decor inside.
No two items will be identical due to the handcrafted nature of drip ware.
The pair have 3 small feet on their rounded bases.
A very glossy mirror-like glaze makes photography of the incised signature difficult.
The base is incised in script "Evangeline Canada 912". A model number.
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After a disastrous fire destroyed the factory in New Brunswick in 1963, the Foley sons moved production to Labelle, Quebec in 1964. Their father remained in New Brunswick and continued to make the Canuck Pottery line Beachcomber Ware from the basement of the family home.
Canuck Pottery ceased business c1970's.
An Evangeline butter dish in the same colour drip pattern as the pin dishes shown above.
The Evangeline signature is a little easier to see on the base of the butter dish since it is a flat surface.
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A stunning example of an Evangeline Ware red-orange drip in a retro mod egg shaped oval ashtray!
Estriceram Pottery Canada was located in Magog, Quebec Canada. Active in the 1960's and 1970's, the name was created by Jacques Garnier (born 1934 - died 1998) from "Estrie" French for Eastern Townships Quebec and "Ceram" for ceramics. Jacques Garnier was an artist/sculptor/ceramicist who served as the Artistic Director of Ceramiques de Beauce (Beauceware - see my past blog post on Beauce for more info) in the 1960's and had his own studio he founded in 1958 "Argile Vivante". He created a Scandinavian style of products for Beauce in 1963 sold under the label "Argile Vivante Beauce".
Under Estriceram Pottery in the 1970's Jacques Garnier created a new interpretation of the forms he used for his Argile Vivante production.
Here is a fabulous psychedelic mug by Estriceram Pottery c1970's.
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The Estriceram backstamp is in blue ink "e Canada" and is sometimes confused with another Canadian Pottery called "Ecanada".
ECanada was founded c1920's and located in Hamilton, Ontario, and the production was almost exclusively Wedgwood-type Jasperware creations, having been founded by George Emery Sr, an English immigrant who apprenticed at Wedgwood England. Sold in high end department and jewellery stores in Canada. Ecanada was created while George Emery Sr was employed by the Canadian Porcelain Company and he turned it over to his son George Emery Jr in 1949. Their production closed in 1952. George Emery Sr was also President of Dundas Clay Products in Hamilton 1934 to 1939 along with another principle James Orme. James Orme purchased the Ecanada molds in 1976 and the "new" production of Ecanada lasted through the 1970's & 1980's and were either unmarked or had EMRO as the mark.
Along with the blue "e" logo stamp, the Estriceram mug base is embossed "JG 102/6", the initials of Jacques Garnier and the item's model number.
Also seen on some Estriceram items is another embossed logo in a triangle "GTC" which stood for Genin Trudeau, a Montreal-Toronto distributor.
Canadian Art Pottery has many "cross overs" with principles, mold makers, and artists working for or owning several different companies through the mid 20th century!
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Nice article, and I love, love that mug.....gorgeous
ReplyDeleteIt is stunning, isn't it!
ReplyDeleteOMG how have I lived my whole life without knowing that there is a pottery label that carries my name! I'm in Love!
ReplyDeleteI recently purchased an evangeline green 935 mug collection...Are they lead free?
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ReplyDeleteSo happy to see this article. The Foley brothers were good friends of my dads and he worked in a supervisory role at Canuck Pottery for 5 years before the fire. We had many, many pieces of the pottery in our home. It became a joke in our home that my mother didn’t become attached to any of them because if somebody admired one of them, my dad would give it to them. I recently served gravy in my gravy boat and our guests were under the impression that evangelineware originated in Nova Scotia. This article fills in the missing history for me. To my knowledge, after Quebec, Percy and Al moved to Collingwood and renamed the line Blue Mountain. cathieayer@hotmail.com
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