This bibliography is limited to material on the history of designed (versus natural) gardens in Canada published before 1950, as well as contemporary literature on gardens existing before 1950. It provides entries for pictorial works, cultural landscapes, botanists/botanical exploration, flora, naturalists, travel and immigrant literature, general horticulture, experimental farms, fruit and vegetable growing, gardening, garden ornaments, landscaping, historic gardens, northern gardens, railway gardening, school gardening, botanical gardens, parks, landscape architects, societies, and landscape preservation.
Reproducing a rare 1827 plant and seed catalogue, possibly the earliest extant catalogue of its kind in Canada, Early Canadian Gardening presents an extensive range of garden plants -- trees, shrubs, fruits, and flowers -- that were grown for food, medicines, and dyestuffs as well as ornamental purposes. Eileen Woodhead provides a detailed description and brief history of the cultivation and use of each plant up to the present day. Most of the descriptions are accompanied by detailed drawings by the author, who found and grew many of the original varieties in the catalogue. The book provides a valuable account of the business of horticulture in the first decades of the nineteenth century -- the practices of importers, merchants, farms, and households -- placing it within the broader context of social history. It includes an appendix of historic sites and botanical gardens in Ontario, as well as sources for heritage seeds. Early Canadian Gardening is a ground-breaking account of the practice and significance of horticulture during the period of settlement in Upper Canada and stands as a remarkable work of historical botany. It will be an invaluable source document for horticulturists and botanists, historians, and garden enthusiasts with an interest in heritage plants.
This publication is a directory to sources of women's history in Saskatchewan which are available through the Saskatchewan Archives Board collections. Entries include collection name, collection location, finding aid number, list of files with dates and extents of women's material if available (or a description of relevant items), and an entry number to aid in cross-referencing. The sources include both written and oral history material (such as audio tapes). Includes personal name index.
Liste signalétique des documents parus entre 1981 et 1985: livres, articles, thèses. L'organisation de la bibliographie est en trois sections: systématique (par ordre des grands sujets), analytique (par ordre des sujets particuliers), auteur (par ordre des noms avec renvois à la section systématique). Les auteurs ont intégré à l'instrument des documents non recensés dans les ouvrages couvrant les périodes antérieures: 1948-1965, 1966-1975, 1976-1980.