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Rita Martin was invented in 1938 as a corporate character for Robin Hood flour, which by the time of this book’s publication was milled in Calgary, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, and Humberstone, Ontario. With a name equally pronounceable in English and…

Canada practiced rationing from 1942 to 1947. It began with sugar, but soon extended to beer, wine, and spirits, tea and coffee, butter, and meat. Rationing in Canada was relatively mild compared to England, where the policy lasted from 1940 to 1954.…

Scandinavians settled across the Prairies. The Vasa Order, named after the first king of modern Sweden, formed in the late 1890s in Connecticut with the goal of preserving Swedish culture; eventually the organization expanded its scope to include…

Community cookbooks were not generally a francophone practice (Driver, “Cookbooks” 410). Even the promising-sounding Recettes des Femmes de St. Joseph, from a francophone community in Manitoba, contains recipes written entirely in…

This sixteen-page cookbook comes from Mayfair United Church in Saskatoon, which still exists today. It is clearly compiled by a predominantly English community: recipe donors have names such as Goodwin, Fraser, and Swift, and a number of the recipes…

This community cookbook hails from Quill Lake, east of Saskatoon. A number of community cookbooks in Saskatchewan were compiled by the Homemakers’ Clubs, which were established in that province in 1911 and raised money for hospitals, libraries,…

The British Women’s Co-operative Guild was first founded in 1883, and it became a model for the retail co-operatives that were founded across the Prairie provinces in the early twentieth century. These retail co-ops joined to form provincial…

Used as both a reference book and textbook in Alberta junior and senior high schools from 1940 to 1984 (“Alberta School”), the Canadian Cook Book, which started as a prescriptive textbook, eventually became a staple in Canadian households…

Buckskin Cookery was originally self-published by Gwen Lewis of Quesnel, British Columbia, in 1957. It consists of two volumes: “The Pioneer Section” and “The Hunter Section.” In reality these two groups overlapped greatly, as…

This cookbook, published in four editions by the St. Josaphat’s Ladies’ Auxiliary, offers a glimpse into Edmonton’s Ukrainian community through the 1940s and early '50s (this edition, the third, is probably from 1954). It includes…