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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…

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…

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…

The British Women’s Co-operative Guild was first founded in 1883, and it became a model for the retail co-operatives that were founded across the Prairie provinces in the early twentieth century. These retail co-ops joined to form provincial…

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…