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This cookbook was published by Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Book Store and Press, which no longer exists. The book shows an interesting mix of influences: the Ukrainian description on the title page translates to “Practical Advice and Explanation in the…

Adelle Davis was a notable American nutritionist and author of seven books on diet and nutrition. Her views, advocating unprocessed food and vitamin supplementation, were often controversial (Carstairs; McBean and Speckmann 1076). This textbook was…

This book is a relic from a program to introduce hot lunch items in rural schools. The introduction notes that most children brought a cold lunch to school and ate it haphazardly throughout the day. “The average noon luncheon tends to promote…

Canada converted to the metric system with an amendment to the Weights and Measures Act and the new Packaging and Labelling Act in 1971. The provinces cooperated to integrate metric units into the school system (Ganapathy). This revision of Recipes…

Field guides of edible wild plants gained popularity in Canada in the 1960s and '70s. A good example is The Edible Wild; while this book was published in Ontario, stamps on two introductory pages reveal this copy was in the Camrose Lutheran College…

The Blue Ribbon Company was established by George Frederick and John Galt in Winnipeg around 1897; the cousins had already established a wholesale grocery business in 1882 (Driver, Culinary 928). Though the copyright for this book was apparently…

This 1935 diary features a cover portrait of Lord Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts in 1907 largely as a response to his experiences in the Boer War. Emphasizing wilderness survival, early scouting guides included tips on tracking,…

Sold at the modest price of one dollar, this cookbook was meant as a fundraiser for Edmonton’s first Scouts group. Although Scouts have a long tradition of camp cooking, this book contains household recipes, most likely provided by the boys’…

According to the Scout Memorabilia Collectors of Canada, this edition of the Canadian Scout Handbook was published in 1968. It is inscribed with the name of Cliff Lewis, who lived at 1813-17th St SW in Calgary in the early 1970s (Henderson’s…

Clearly serving as a local business advertiser as much as a household guide, the first edition of this series was published in Vancouver around 1911–13, but versions soon followed for Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal (Driver, Culinary…