Nancy Meek Pocock

In 1930, she studied design and bench work in Paris, and upon returning to Toronto opened a jewellery studio on Gerrard Street which she shared with potter and friend Nunzio D'Angelo.

Pocock (with Harold Stacey) was one of the founding directors of the Metal Arts Guild of Ontario and the only one to be described as a "silversmith" in its letters patent.

Her work was included as part of the craft component for the Canadian Pavilion in the Universal and International Exhibition in Brussels in 1958.

[2] They helped establish the Grindstone Island programs, a series of seminars devoted to tackling the problems of war through peaceful means.

Lying on a bed in the Emergency unit just days before she died, she continued to sign documents for an Iranian refugee.