Learning Canadian Ways
Learning Canadian Ways The lives of Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) and Alice Ravenhill (1859-1954) spanned two centuries and two continents. They [...]
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Feb, 21
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Jan, 21
Canada’s Tofu Revolution
Tofu Revolution How Canada’s Tofu Revolution Began in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | MONTECRISTO (montecristomagazine.com)
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Dec, 20
Cod liver oil
Cod Liver Oil Sixty years ago, school children in Alberta and BC (and likely in other provinces) were given doses of [...]
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Dec, 20
China Lily Soy Sauce Shortage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/china-lily-shortage-1.5817336
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Nov, 20
Boomtown Butcher Shops
Boomtown Butcher Shops Business was booming in BC from the 1890s up to the Great War. Two butcher shops opened in [...]
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Nov, 20
Ethel Mulvany Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook
Ethel Mulvany: Changi Prisoner of War Cookbook The taste of longing: Ethel Mulvany and her starving prisoners of war cookbook (2020) [...]
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Oct, 20
Fusion foods and innovations
Some people will dispute where these foods originate, but at least some of them are Canadian inventions. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/foods-from-canada
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Sep, 20
Grindrod Garlic Festival
The first ever Virtual Grindrod Garlic Festival. Historic on so many counts. On til September 15, 2020. https://grindrodgarlicfestival.ca/schedule-of-events
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Aug, 20
Blackberries – unruly colonizers
Blackberries - unruly colonizers https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/08/21/How-Blackberries-Took-Over/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=240820 If the link doesn't work, please go to "How blackberries took over" by Christopher Cheung in [...]
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Aug, 20
Changing Grocery Store
"Things will never be the same at the grocery store" - Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, the writer of the following article, is [...]