Nova Scotia Archives
What's Cooking?
Food, Drink and the Pleasures of Eating in Old-Time Nova Scotia
Virtual Exhibit
An endless variety of food, drink and the pleasures of eating is captured here in over 100 images and documents — a smorgasbord of kitchens and cooking equipment, banquets indoors and out, picnics, church suppers and weddings, restaurants, old-time purveyors of meat and game, grocery stores and early supermarkets, camp kitchens, farm produce and the harvest of the sea. The exhibit begins with a diagram showing the correct placement of food on the table at a formal banquet in Halifax, 1785, and ends two centuries later in 1994, with HM Queen Elizabeth II inspecting a period kitchen rebuilt at Fortress Louisbourg.
Results 1 to 15 of 113 from your search:
Diagram of arrangement of food on the Supper Table, Queen's Ball, Halifax
Date: 18 January 1785
Reference: Almon Scrapbook Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 14
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Sign from the Stag Inn, Preston
Date: 1840s
Reference: Nova Scotia Museum 34-211
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Poster for Picnic at McNab's Island
Date: 1847
Reference: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 vol. 1 no. 45 (microfilm 786)
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
"Faders Bros. Market, 8-10 Bedford Row, Halifax, N.S., 1885"
Date: 1885
Reference: Fader Nova Scotia Archives 1972-21 no. 24
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
"J. A. Leaman & Co., 8-10 Bedford Row, Halifax, N.S., formerly owned by Faders Bros., 1890"
Date: 1890
Reference: Fader Nova Scotia Archives 1972-21 no. 25
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
"The Mayflower Stoves and Ranges"
Date: ca. 1896
Reference: Library Nova Scotia Archives VF vol. 135 no. 32
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
View of fish drying on flakes, Lunenburg
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: W.L. Bishop Nova Scotia Archives 1983-240 104
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Two Women Cooking Over a Campfire
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Dunlop Nova Scotia Archives 1992-398 no. 15 negative N-2488
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Man Cooking Fish Over a Campfire
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Dunlop Nova Scotia Archives 1992-398 no. 20
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
"Nass family picnic, The Deep Cove Picnic, Chester, August 1904"
Date: August 1904
Reference: Edith Read Nova Scotia Archives 1996-78 no. 94 negative N-10077
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Interior of a general store, Guysborough, N.S.
Date: ca. 1900
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 no. 41 negative N-7252
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Engineers in mess tent, Guysborough, N.S.
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 no. 177
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
First prize Edith N. Cooking for girls under 16, Guysborough County Exhibition
Date: September 1915
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 no. 429
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Group cooking in woods
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 no. 562
Topic: Virtual Exhibit
Miss Tomkins and hens, Guysborough, N.S.
Date: ca. 1917
Reference: Buckley family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-386 no. 627
Topic: Virtual Exhibit