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Another example of a wartime cookbook, Cook to Win was produced by the Good Cheer Club of Wesley United Church in Calgary. The cover shows a housewife focusing on key cooking goals, not unlike a military strategist. The foreword appeals to Prairie…

This sixteen-page cookbook comes from Mayfair United Church in Saskatoon, which still exists today. It is clearly compiled by a predominantly English community: recipe donors have names such as Goodwin, Fraser, and Swift, and a number of the recipes…

The Girl Guides were founded in Britain in 1909, with the first Canadian unit formed in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1910. By 1912, there were units in every province (Girl Guides, “History”). The Wascana Girl Guides were based out of Regina, the…

Codex. 21.7 x 29.6 cm.
N 7433.4 Q23 A6 C755 1990z

Two Loucheux women, pictured at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories. 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…

A saddled horse, stuck in the soft mud while trying to ford the Salt River in the Northwest Territories, thrashes its head. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the photographic print included in Miriam Green Ellis' photo…

The Northern Trading Co's steam wheeler "Trader", photographed on the Mackenzie River below Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories, under the Midnight Sun at 11:30pm. This image juxtaposes the coloured magic lantern version with the…