"Bath Night"

"Bath Night" is the first of three part commissioned mural, "Heart of the Home", for the Canada 150 celebration and commorating Montague's 100 Years of incorporation, 2017. It is hung on the Bogside Brewery building on Brook St in Montague, PEI.

Not only today but for centuries, the kitchen has represented the meeting place and the workplace of much of the family. Nowadays most of us have rooms for individual tasks but back in the time of Confederation, other than for the well-to-do, families had the kitchen where meals were created and eaten, preserves made for the winter months, sewing of garments and knitting was all year round. The kitchen range burned warmly to heat most of the house (if not all), school lessons were learned. Children had baths in the comfortable heat of the kitchen and laundry was washed and ironed. It was a meeting place where the families caught up with each other every evening to find out what was going on in their own worlds and, sometimes, to listen to the radio for music and the outside world news. Even now, so many of our get-togethers become kitchen parties, everyone just finds their way there, it is a comfortable place to be.

Prints are available.