Province

Newfoundland and Labrador

More than 1,300 coastal communities had no basic health care in 1920, and women in those communities knitted to pay the nurses' salaries. NONIA still works that way, sending wool out and selling what comes back. The knitting never moved into a factory.

St. John's

NONIA

Newfoundland and Labrador

NONIA sells hand-knit wool sweaters and caps from St. John's, knit by about 140 knitters across Newfoundland and Labrador.