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Sold at the modest price of one dollar, this cookbook was meant as a fundraiser for Edmonton’s first Scouts group. Although Scouts have a long tradition of camp cooking, this book contains household recipes, most likely provided by the boys’…

According to the Scout Memorabilia Collectors of Canada, this edition of the Canadian Scout Handbook was published in 1968. It is inscribed with the name of Cliff Lewis, who lived at 1813-17th St SW in Calgary in the early 1970s (Henderson’s…

Clearly serving as a local business advertiser as much as a household guide, the first edition of this series was published in Vancouver around 1911–13, but versions soon followed for Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal (Driver, Culinary…

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…

Elizabeth Driver notes that this booklet must date from at least 1928, when the Border Canning Company of British Columbia opened a new plant in Edmonton (Culinary 1114). A thousand acres of land were leased and seeded to supply the new plant, which…

5 printed lead sheets, each 12 x 9 x 1/2", seven pages of text, plus title page, in two wooden cartons.

Sequence of photographs on a large folded sheet. Printed cover opening to a sequence of photographs printed on a single sheet. 4' x 3' of the burning of a photograph.

Printed and bound, title is written on two lines: Clea and Rsky, or Clear Sky. Full colour photographs of various shades of blue. Signed on the back.

P. Burns and Co. was a large Prairie abattoir and packing-plant company. Established by Pat Burns in 1890 in Calgary, the company soon expanded to Vancouver and Edmonton, and changed its name to Burns and Co. in 1923. Though Burns and Co. specialized…

Kodachrome was one of the first widely-used colour films, introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935. Here, Kodachrome film was used to create colourful pictures of the Canadian Rockies. Printed as postcards, the pictures were sold as souvenirs…