Sugar beets were first grown in Western Canada around the turn of the twentieth century and were soon a popular crop in Alberta and Manitoba. Interned Japanese Canadians and German prisoners of war helped harvest the beets during World War II…
Canada converted to the metric system with an amendment to the Weights and Measures Act and the new Packaging and Labelling Act in 1971. The provinces cooperated to integrate metric units into the school system (Ganapathy). This revision of Recipes…
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…
Community cookbooks were not generally a francophone practice (Driver, “Cookbooks” 410). Even the promising-sounding Recettes des Femmes de St. Joseph, from a francophone community in Manitoba, contains recipes written entirely in…