A Scottish settler living in Winnipeg in 1871 bought this Paisley shawl for his wife while on a return visit to his homeland. Paisley shawls got their name from the Scottish town where they were mass-produced by nineteenth-century weavers. Their designs were adapted from handmade, beautifully-patterned Kashmiri woollen shawls, imported from India in the late eighteenth century. "Paisley" became the popular name for the exotic patterns and the shawls themselves.

A Bukovinian (Ukrainian) immigrant brought this shirt with her in 1912, when she came to Canada at the age of 21. The shirt is decorated with coloured floral bead-work on the front and sleeves. It was donated to the Museum by the immigrant's daughter.

Black beaver hats like this one were traditionally worn to church by Welsh women in the mid-nineteenth century, over white lace caps. This particular hat was a family treasure, brought to Canada by a Welsh family that moved to Ontario in 1912.