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Laura Lindsay (1914–88) was a popular Edmonton television personality. Her homemaker’s show aired live five days a week on the Sunwapta Broadcasting Corporation’s CFRN (now CTV). Her real name was in fact Laura Banks, and her son Tommy Banks…

Elizabeth Driver has argued, with respect to francophone cookbooks, that “Before the Quiet Revolution in Quebec in the 1960s, the influence of the Catholic Church permeated French society and entrenched the traditional subservience of women.…

The front cover of Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the West, edited by Dr. Patricia Demers.

The front cover of Miriam Green Ellis: Champion of the West by Dr. Patricia Demers. This volume is the catalog to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library's Miriam Green Ellis collection exhibit, on display beginning March 14, 2013.

The back cover of Miriam Green Ellis: Champion of the West by Dr. Patricia Demers. This volume is the catalog to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library's Miriam Green Ellis collection exhibit, on display beginning March 14, 2013.

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…

The 1970s dim sum ticket from the My Lai Garden restaurant, in contrast to the Golden City menu, features many clearly Cantonese dishes, including water chestnut cake, egg tarts, green peppers stuffed with shrimp paste, and pig’s liver rice crepes;…

Field guides of edible wild plants gained popularity in Canada in the 1960s and '70s. A good example is The Edible Wild; while this book was published in Ontario, stamps on two introductory pages reveal this copy was in the Camrose Lutheran College…

Tobacco gets its own chapter in this reader, part of a series on “the great industries of the world.” This copy was once in the library at the Camrose Provincial Normal School. The book’s treatment of ethnicity and cultural…

Acquired in recognition of Dr Kamaljit Bawa in 2014