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The age of this book is not clear. A calendar stuck in one of its leaves suggests it might have been published as early as 1936. Elizabeth Driver estimates a date during World War II, based on “Help Win the War” coloured plates pasted on…

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…

Adelle Davis was a notable American nutritionist and author of seven books on diet and nutrition. Her views, advocating unprocessed food and vitamin supplementation, were often controversial (Carstairs; McBean and Speckmann 1076). This textbook was…

The domestic science movement, which arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and encouraged women to apply scientific knowledge to their household work, is exemplified by this American textbook. This edition was used at the…

First introduced in the United States in 1897, Jell-O initially struggled to find a market, so in 1904, the company introduced the “Jell-O Girl.” She was based on four-year-old Elizabeth King, the daughter of one of the advertising…

In addition to its standard nutritional information, this book provides detailed instructions on how students might carry out experiments on rats in the classroom, feeding them deficient diets and observing the results. Students might also chloroform…

The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire was founded in 1900 to support the British Empire during the Boer War. The Military Chapter of Calgary was formed in 1914 (Glenbow, “IODE”). Likely published around 1927 (Driver 1054), this…

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…

Anthropometric approaches to health and nutrition thrived in the twentieth century. Cookbooks and home economics manuals, including this volume (used as a high school textbook from 1964 to 1978 [“Alberta School”]), contained graphs highlighting…