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A group photo of the Canadian Women's Press Club, taken at the CWPC Golden Jubilee in Toronto, 1954.

Left to right, standing: Kate Aitken; Miriam Green Ellis; Madeleine Levason;

Seated: Joan Duggan; Charlotte Whitton, Her Worship, Mayor of…

Modified photograph of Mrs. Conibear, trader and entrepreneur, holding a moosehide 'tea bag' in front of her Fort Smith home. From the accompanying text:

'Mrs Connibear in front of her house at Fort Smith. It is probably the only house in the…

A map detailing Miriam Green Ellis' route to Aklavik, created by the University of Alberta Press to accompany Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis - Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West (ed. Patricia Demers).

A portrait of MIriam Green Ellis with her signature Welthur camera. This image accompanied her article "Out West with the Weekly" published October 1951 in the The Slug magazine, on the adventure of agricultural journalism in Western Canada.

Miriam Green Ellis (middle back) poses with the Prince Albert High School girls' hockey team, in Saskatchewan. She started and managed the team while George Ellis was principal of the Prince Albert College Institute.

This image is courtesy of the…

Though published by the Department of Education for the Province of British Columbia, versions of this book were used as curriculum and reference texts for Alberta junior and senior high school students from 1937 to 1969 (“Alberta School”). This…

From the early decades of the twentieth century, provincial and federal government departments produced free publications encouraging women to make the most of local products. Polly Potato, whose attractive but oversized head must have been modelled…

This chart is part of a Swift Canadian campaign, beginning in the late 1940s, that encouraged “Meats for Babies.” Although Swift’s Canadian headquarters were in Ontario, this pre-cooked and strained food, sold in small cans, might have been…

Dating from 1955, Saskatchewan’s Golden Jubilee, this book was produced by the Saskatchewan Homemakers’ Clubs. Founded in 1911 under the parentage of the University of Saskatchewan’s Extension Division, the organization was a key part of the…

This provincial curriculum book, issued by the Saskatchewan government, was renamed Recipes for Home Economics Classes by 1926, anticipating the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Household Science’s similar change to the College of…