Food Processing and Marketing
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Apr, 21
Butchers of Barkerville
Butchers of Barkerville The trail through the Okanagan Valley was a major transportation route during the gold rush years of 1858 [...]
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Jan, 21
BestOVall Canning Company – Beans and All
BestOVall Canning Company – Beans and All The idea for this blog began with an intriguing label for BestOVall Canning Company, [...]
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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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May, 20
John S. Deas – First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery
John S. Deas - First BC Commercial Salmon Cannery I’ve enjoyed many walks on the trails of Deas Island Regional [...]
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Apr, 20
Soda Water
Soda Water in BC Drink Thorpe's Soda - BC Provincial Archives As food history researchers we never know what [...]
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Feb, 20
Love that chocolate…
Love That Chocolate… Love that chocolate? Here we are in February also known as a chocolate month and the month of [...]
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Mar, 19
Apple Packing in BC
Apple Packing in BC How d’you like them apples? When you are doing food history research it is so easy to [...]
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Feb, 19
BC Sugar and Alberta Sugar Beets
BC Sugar and Alberta Sugar Beets Sweet Dreams cover “Sweet “ dreams come true: Recipes you’ll relish is [...]
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Feb, 19
Cuban Lunch
Cuban Lunch ** (see note at bottom re comments) The Cuban Lunch is a true Western Canadian chocolate bar and [...]
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Jan, 19
Women and Okanagan-Shuswap Dairies
Contented cows at Craster Dairy, Lavington, BC Women and Okanagan-Shuswap Dairies Laura Rose, author and dairy instructor at Ontario [...]