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A First Nations woman sits in front of a cabin making snowshoes. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic lantern slide version is on the top,…

An Inuit woman from Aklavik, Laura, poses behind the wheel of a car in front of the Templeman Bros. store in Edmonton, Alberta. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo…

A birch bark canoe, set on the shore at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album. The coloured magic…

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).…

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…

Dating from 1955, Saskatchewan’s Golden Jubilee, this book was produced by the Saskatchewan Homemakers’ Clubs. Founded in 1911 under the parentage of the University of Saskatchewan’s Extension Division, the organization was a key part of the…

This chart is part of a Swift Canadian campaign, beginning in the late 1940s, that encouraged “Meats for Babies.” Although Swift’s Canadian headquarters were in Ontario, this pre-cooked and strained food, sold in small cans, might have been…

From the early decades of the twentieth century, provincial and federal government departments produced free publications encouraging women to make the most of local products. Polly Potato, whose attractive but oversized head must have been modelled…

Though published by the Department of Education for the Province of British Columbia, versions of this book were used as curriculum and reference texts for Alberta junior and senior high school students from 1937 to 1969 (“Alberta School”). This…

Miriam Green Ellis (middle back) poses with the Prince Albert High School girls' hockey team, in Saskatchewan. She started and managed the team while George Ellis was principal of the Prince Albert College Institute.

This image is courtesy of the…