In “Sixth Company Battalion,” photographer Anique Jordan cast her mother and two aunts in the uniforms of War of 1812 British forces, for which Black Loyalists from Trinidad fought. The photograph is among 70 works by 52 women artists on exhibit at the Canadian War Museum until Jan. 5. (ANIQUE JORDAN/CWM)

War Museum exhibits more than two centuries of women’s war art

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Elise Findlay had just graduated with distinction and the Board of Governor’s Award from Alberta University of the Arts when an unprecedented opportunity presented itself. The former cabinet maker from Banff seized the day, applying for and becoming the Canadian War Museum’s first artist in residence.

Now she’s part of a sweeping exhibition featuring more than two centuries of Canadian women’s war art, her fabric-based interpretations of the tools her predecessors used and weapons and accoutrements of war displayed alongside works by the likes of Mary Riter Hamilton, Molly Lamb Bobak and Gertrude Kearns.

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