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Children’s cookbooks tend to emphasize desserts, as is especially clear in the Kids Cookbook produced by the Calgary Public Library. Children submitted their favourite recipes in this juvenile community cookbook: the results include brownies,…

Published in 1954, this book was a fundraiser for the Saskatoon Academy of the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technicians, now the Saskatchewan Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists. The cover illustration oddly superimposes a chef’s hat…

Laura Lindsay (1914–88) was a popular Edmonton television personality. Her homemaker’s show aired live five days a week on the Sunwapta Broadcasting Corporation’s CFRN (now CTV). Her real name was in fact Laura Banks, and her son Tommy Banks…

In addition to its standard nutritional information, this book provides detailed instructions on how students might carry out experiments on rats in the classroom, feeding them deficient diets and observing the results. Students might also chloroform…

Margarine was illegal in Canada from 1886 until 1917, when the ban was temporarily lifted to compensate for the shortage of butter during World War I. This brochure, published in March 1923, argued for a renewal of the ban, as margarine posed a…

Elizabeth Driver notes that this booklet must date from at least 1928, when the Border Canning Company of British Columbia opened a new plant in Edmonton (Culinary 1114). A thousand acres of land were leased and seeded to supply the new plant, which…

Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert was born in Canada to Loyalist parents. He became Professor of Natural Science at Victoria College in Toronto in 1841 (Neill 82). The long title of this book is Physical Atlas with Coloured Maps Showing the Geographical…

Anthropometric approaches to health and nutrition thrived in the twentieth century. Cookbooks and home economics manuals, including this volume (used as a high school textbook from 1964 to 1978 [“Alberta School”]), contained graphs highlighting…

From the early decades of the twentieth century, provincial and federal government departments produced free publications encouraging women to make the most of local products. Polly Potato, whose attractive but oversized head must have been modelled…

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.…