JACKET

Description: LIGHT PINK COTTON FLANNEL BABY JACKET WITH A BLUE AND WHITE FLOWERED PATTERN. INSIDE OF JACKET IS LINED WITH PLAIN WHITE FLANNEL. FRONT AND BACK ARE ONE PIECE OF FABRIC, WITH OPEN SIDES BELOW THE SHOULDER. SIDES ARE FASTENED WITH 2 LIGHT BLUE SATIN RIBBONS ON EACH SIDE. JACKET ALSO FASTENS AT FRONT OF COLLAR, ALSO WITH A LIGHT BLUE SATIN RIBBON, BUT THE RIBBON ON THE LEFT SIDE IS MISSING. THE ENDS OF THE RIBBONS ARE FRAYED, AND FABRIC IS WORN, BUT CLEAN.

History: ITEMS WERE CONTAINED IN A TRUNK BELONGING TO THE DONOR'S MOTHER, WHO WAS BORN IN 1902 AND WAS RAISED ON A DOUKHOBOR COMMUNE UNTIL SHE AND FRED EVDOKIMOFF LEFT WHEN THEY WERE 18 YEARS OLD TO GET MARRIED. MANY OF THE ITEMS DATE BACK TO THE EARLY 1900'S, WHILE OTHERS ARE MODERN AND DATE TO THE 1980'S. DONOR'S PARENTS MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1952. MRS. EVDOKIMOFF DIED IN 1986 AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS OLD. *UPDATE* NICOLE HEMBROFF, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT, MET WITH DONOR WALLY EVDOKIMOFF IN 2010 TO DISCUSS HIS DONATION OF THE TRUNK AND ITS CONTENTS. SEE BELOW. EVDOKIMOFF THOUGHT THE JACKET WOULD HAVE BEEN HAND MADE AND WAS LIKELY USED FOR HIS BROTHER AND HIS SIBLINGS. HE DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN USED WHEN HE WAS A BABY BUT HE WASN'T SURE. THERE WERE FIVE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY. HIS ELDEST BROTHER, PETER, WAS BORN IN THE LATE 1920'S. HIS OTHER SIBLINGS WERE NAMED FRED, FENYA "FRAN" AND BILL. WALLY EVDOKIMOFF WAS THE YOUNGEST SIBLING BY NINE YEARS. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR MORE INFORMATION. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF BOXED TEXTILES AND ACCSSORIES, INCLUDING THIS JACKET DONATED BY WALLY EVDOKIMOFF. DURING A PHONE CONVERSATION WITH PUNDYK IN 2018, EVDOKIMOFF STATED HIS FAMILY LIVED IN YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN AND BRILLIANT, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THEY WERE MOST LIKELY A PART OF THE DOUKHOBOR COMMUNITIES IN THOSE AREAS. HE CONFIRMED THAT HIS PARENTS FIRST ARRIVED IN ALBERTA IN 1952.