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Students will investigate the importance of stopping places along Canada's frontier in terms of food, shelter, transportation and communication.
Collection:
Feeding the Frontier - Food in Early Canada
Creator: Davenport Centre - Heritage Hall
Students will investigate the volume and types of food consumed in the shanty lumber camps of the 1800s and the daily preparation methods employed by the all-important camp cook.
Collection:
Feeding the Frontier - Food in Early Canada
Creator: Davenport Centre - Heritage Hall
Maps showing where emigrants traveling the Rhine en route to Canada originated
Collection:
Rhine: Migration Highway to the Sea, Germany to Canada 1750-1752
Creator: CHIN-Canadian Heritage Information Network
Students analyze the importance of faunal artifacts (bones), tools and methods used to hunt, fish and process meats to understand roles of domestic and wild species in the survival of early settlers.
Collection:
Feeding the Frontier - Food in Early Canada
Creator: Davenport Centre - Heritage Hall
Students investigate pioneer food traditions, kitchen tools and cooking methods transferred from Europe to Canada and cook pioneer dishes using traditional recipes, tools and ingredients.
Collection:
Feeding the Frontier - Food in Early Canada
Creator: Davenport Centre - Heritage Hall
Photographs tell the story of a nation in ruins following 1945 and the defeat of Hitler in World War II
Collection:
Postwar Germany 1945-1955: Captured in Photographs
Creator: CHIN-Canadian Heritage Information Network
How the government of Swabia and Neuburg reacted to emigration, the official steps emigrants needed to take, and the money required to emigrate
Collection:
Emigration from Schwaben-Neuburg, Germany to Canada, 1849-1851
Creator: CHIN
The history and living conditions of the people of Donaumoos and Probfeld, where Swabian emigrants to Canada, 1849-1851, originated
Collection:
Emigration from Schwaben-Neuburg, Germany to Canada, 1849-1851
Creator: CHIN
Where did these Bavarian Swabians emigrate to in the 19th century? And what did the emigrants know about Canada? And how did one get to Canada? Could anyone who wanted to, emigrate?
Collection:
Emigration from Schwaben-Neuburg, Germany to Canada, 1849-1851
Creator: CHIN
A compact coal-fired, cast iron hot water heater from the 1940s
Collection:
'Warming Up' Collection of space heating artefacts, 1920s to the 1960s
Creator: HVACR Heritage Centre Canada
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