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Nerlich was founded in 1858 and specialized in china, glass, fancy goods, toys and dolls. If one judges by the price of toys, this catalogue was obviously geared to quite wealthy customers.
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Nerlich & Company
Catalogue No. 87: Season 1939-1940.
Toronto: The Company, 1939. 224 p.
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One of the most important merchants and manufacturers in French Canada, Pierre-Théophile Légaré (1851-1926) and his enterprise specialized in carriages and farm equipment. He was also a distributor of household articles.
P.T. Légaré Limitée
Catalogue No. 44.
[Ottawa?]: printed by the Mortimer Co. Ltd., [1920]. 422 p.
This firm was most famous for its manufacturing of stoves and hot-air furnaces. The beautifully lithographed front and back covers were the work of Barclay, Clark and Co. of Toronto.
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McClary Manufacturing Co.
Illustrated Price List for 1890.
London, Ont.: R. Southam, 1890. 159 p.
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Singer Sewing Machine Company
Singer Sewing Machines.
Canada: The Company, [circa 1913]. 24 p.
Before 1840, cookbooks used in Canada were imported, some being sold unaltered while others included a special title page printed by the Canadian bookseller. In this particular example, the complete book was printed in Paris, including the title page; the Quebec bookseller having requested a personalized title page from the French printer. This infrequent practice was designed to give a particularly local touch to a foreign work and thus attract more customers.
Menon's work is a classic in gastronomy. First printed in Paris in 1746, it went through a great many editions. As the work contains rather sophisticated recipes, requiring ingredients and produce only readily available in Europe, one wonders how useful it was to the average Canadian family.
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Menon, 18th century
La Cuisinière bourgeoise, précédée d'un Manuel prescrivant les devoirs qu'ont à remplir les personnes qui se destinent à entrer en service dans les maisons bourgeoises... Troisième édition revue par une maîtresse de maison.
Québec: Augustin Germain;
Paris: Imprimerie J. Moronval, 1825. 312 p.
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The cookbooks of the second half of the 19th century also contained practical information on washing, dying and home remedies. Some also included short poems, aphorisms or humorous stories to amuse the homemaker.
Nouvelle Cuisinière canadienne: Contenant tout ce qu'il est nécessaire de savoir dans un ménage, tel que l'achat de diverses sortes de denrées, la manière de préparer les soupes grasses et maigres, cuire et assaisonner les potages et rôtis de toute espèce, [etc.]. Éd. rev., corr. et considérablement augm.
Montréal: L. Perrault, [circa 1850-1860]. 108 p.
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard; or, Canadian Cook Book: Over Five Hundred Practical Receipts.
Hamilton, Ont.: G.C. Briggs, 1881. 112, [16] p.
Many cookbooks were published by food companies.
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company
Recettes Ogilvie pour la cuisinière moderne.
Montreal: Ogilvie, 1913. 123 p.
Specialized cookbooks were published during the last two wars. They contained simple recipes using the most common types of food.
Canada Food Board
Potatoes and How to Cook Them.
Ottawa: Canada Food Board, 1918. 8 p.
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