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Many Chinese immigrants came to Canada to work on the railway, but after these jobs ended, they were prohibited from entering or training for many professions. Many turned to restaurants to make a living. The earliest Chinese restaurant menus…

This album (labelled on the cover "Anatomische Abbildungen der Biene") from 1875captures some of the reasons why early photography was more effective at producing knowledge than circulating knowledge. Here, photographs, drawings, and text mingle…

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…