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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…

Codex. 18 x 22 cm.
N 7433.4 H695 A6 T282 2007

Scroll. 230 cm x 17.5 cm (opened).
N 7433.3 M646 2000 folio

Texts in English and Spanish. Collection of sentences that build off the previous. A single sentence appears on each page and is written first in Spanish and then in English below it.

Printed by the Calgary-based Western Printing & Lithographing Co., this particular edition is not included in Elizabeth Driver’s Culinary Landmarks; other 1915 editions were printed by S.A. Hynd Litho-Print Ltd. of Calgary (1043–44).…

Edmonton’s Ladies Hospital Aid, founded in 1898, paid the initial $8000 cost of opening the 25-bed Edmonton Public Hospital in 1900 (Infofile). The cornerstone was laid in 1910 for a replacement hospital, which opened in 1912. This new building,…

Printed and bound reproductions of the media, communications and photographs of the Mr. Peanut for mayor of Vancouver political campaign. Inscribed: For Francis, See you at the White House. Signed by MItchell and Trasov.

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…