COAT, EVENING

Description: FULL-LENGTH BLACK VELVET COAT WITH AN OFF-WHITE FUR COLLAR, W/ ERMINE TAILS ATTACHED ON THE FRONT. COAT FASTENS WITH ONE LARGE VELVET COVERED BUTTON ON THE FRONT, AND A TIE ON THE INSIDE. OFF-WHITE SATIN LINING HAS A POCKET ON THE INSIDE. NO LABEL. COAT IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, BUT SEVERAL ERMINE TAILS ARE MISSING.

History: ALICE WILSON MARRIED CHARLES MINTY IN 1928 OR 29 IN WINNIPEG, WHERE SHE PURCHASED THE COAT. HAD 3 CHILDREN EDITH 1931-, FRANK 1932-, & HELEN 1936. MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1938-39 APPROX. HUSBAND OWNED LETHBRIDGE MACHINERY CO. LTD. HE PASSED AWAY 1972. **NOTE** ALICE REMARRIED & BECAME MRS. GORE-HICKMAN BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE KNOWN AS ALICE MINTY WHEN COAT IS DISPLAYED. ACCORDING TO DONOR SHE WORE THE COAT ALOT, AND FOR ALL TYPES OF OCCASIONS YEAR ROUND UNTIL THE EARLY 1960'S. ALICE HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER IN THE "ORDER OF THE STAR". *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING AN EVENING COAT DONATED BY ALICE GORE-HICKMAN. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. CHARLES A. MINTY PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 19, 1975 IN PALM SPRINGS, CA. ALICE GORE-HICKMAN (PREVIOUSLY MINTY, NEE WILSON) WAS REMARRIED FOLLOWING CHARLES’S DEATH TO THOMAS O’BRIEN GORE-HICKMAN IN 1976. ONE OF CHARLES’S AND ALICE’S DAUGHTERS WAS EDITH KATHLEEN, WHO WAS BORN IN 1931 IN WINNIPEG. IN 1950, EDITH MARRIED NICK HAYDYCHUK, JR., AND IN 1968 EDITH MARRIED DOUGLAS JOSEPH CLARKE. EDITH PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 8, 2011. ACCORDING TO HER OBITUARY, ALICE PASSED AWAY IN 2007. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD.