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This elegantly designed menu from approximately 1928 features a delightful poem about the joys of riding on the Canadian National Railway. Much of it concerns food: If you follow the magic carpet‘Twill lead to a fairy car,Where all things good…

This cigarette album commemorates the 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin and in the Bavarian ski town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.Cigarette albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in…

Acquired in recognition of Douglas Stollery

Dedicated to the German-Canadian housewife, this book bridges the gap between immigrant families and English-speaking Canadian society. The “Deutsch–englisches Wörter-Verzeichnis” (German–English Glossary) at the end of the book may have…