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The Girl Guides were founded in Britain in 1909, with the first Canadian unit formed in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1910. By 1912, there were units in every province (Girl Guides, “History”). The Wascana Girl Guides were based out of Regina, the…

Just as FILE played off LIFE, VILE in turn played off of FILE, subverting the jest further with generally more explicit content.

Capitalizing on the casserole craze of the 1940s and '50s, this publication from the Vancouver Province was one of a series of eight booklets, perhaps available by order to the newspaper’s readers. Allowing the cook to “stretch” a…

These "real photographs" of York are similar in format to the photographs of Melrose Abbey, though these were published by the Valentine company, a commercial photographic firm based in Scotland.

These views of Portree, Scotland, are reproduced by collotype, a photomechanical processdeveloped in the mid-nineteenth century that allowed photographic negatives to be printed with ink on paper. Collotypes provided a way to print photographs within…