Glove manufacturer opens what is billed as the country’s first museum devoted entirely to gloves, hoping to draw visitors to the seaside Newfoundland community
Tammy Fudge holds up a glove that belonged to Marilyn Monroe at The Canadian Glove Museum in Point Leamington, N.L. on Sept. 5.A five-hour drive from St. John’s, N.L., and well off the beaten path, Point Leamington seems an unlikely spot for a one-of-a-kind tourist attraction.
“It’s just such a beautiful place,” Superior Glove president Tony Geng said of Point Leamington in a recent interview.“Anything that we can do to keep it more alive and attract other people to it, I think is a cool thing.” Marilyn Monroe’s tiny white gloves have a single pearl fastener on the wrist. Audrey Hepburn’s black leather Ralph Lauren gloves are longer, with three buttons gleaming in succession down the extended cuff.
“There was one lady who had goosebumps,” she said. “But then again, you'll have a few who will have goosebumps with Elvis Presley’s gloves as well.” Nobody has been permitted to smell Presley’s gloves, despite several requests. The glove museum is part of the sprawling Point Leamington factory, where machines spin, sew, stamp and sort as employees watch and calibrate. The plant produces more than 3,000 types of gloves and the yarn to make them — enough yarn in one day to go around the world one and a half times, Fudge said. Some machines spin threads of tungsten steel so thin they’re nearly impossible to see. The threads will be combined into yarn and knitted into cut-resistant gloves.
Rural Newfoundland has a long history of young people moving away to mainland Canada for work. The Point Leamington plant is managed by one such person, Frazer Stuckless, who had worked at Superior Glove in Ontario. He planned to move home and start a taxi business, but Frank Geng asked Stuckless to help get a plant up and running in Point Leamington instead, Fudge said.
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