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This provincial curriculum book, issued by the Saskatchewan government, was renamed Recipes for Home Economics Classes by 1926, anticipating the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Household Science’s similar change to the College of…

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…

Sugar beets were first grown in Western Canada around the turn of the twentieth century and were soon a popular crop in Alberta and Manitoba. Interned Japanese Canadians and German prisoners of war helped harvest the beets during World War II…

Acquired in recognition of The Honourable Sheilah Louise Martin

Three Inuit men take the photos of their photographers at Aklavik, Northwest Territories.

The aptly named Dianne Watt, Director of the Home Service Department of Canadian Utilities Limited, had a useful mascot in “Reddy,” the helpful bulb-nosed electricity representative who also graced Calgary Power’s advertising (see,…

The oil refinery at the Discovery Well in Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

Reverse of Miriam Green Ellis' scratch notes, detailing the order of slides for one of her magic lantern shows. The note is written on a stationary envelope from the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, Canada.