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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.…

This presentation album was created to commemorate a Canadian Pacific Railway investors' trip across Canada, and was published by Canadian photographic studio William Notman & Son. The album provides an example of albumen prints created using the…

Much about Mrs. Mary Berkner’s life is elusive. A Saskatchewan farm woman, perhaps with Hungarian roots, Berkner’s goal was to encourage Depression-era women to produce delicious food while saving money and driving down the price of…