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Ep. 13: Acadia: The Ties and Dyes that Bind


Have we found the ideal intersection of food and fabric? This month we’re talking about things we can eat that can also make our clothes pretty, and Torey is feeling like a real-life history scientist in her kitchen. Meanwhile Steph is going deep into the Acadian history behind a very delicious veggie soup recipe.

Statue of Evangeline and Memorial Church, Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. Photo by Charles Hoffman on Flickr. Used with Creative Commons license.


Torey is obsessed with a book -- one she was reminded of when a coworker requested a list of Canadian history book recommendations (be still, our hearts). A Little History of Canada by H.V. Nelles is at the top of the list -- and scroll to the end of this post for the whole list.

Steph is obsessed with new-to-her resources at her new place of work, the Nanaimo Museum. She's educating herself about the history of residential schools in Canada and is particularly interested in one book by a residential school survivor: My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling.

Did you know Fashionably Ate is a full year old? It is! We started this little show in September 2016 and we're still having so much fun. To celebrate we'll be taking a bit of a harvest hiatus this month, but we'll be back in November for another full year of podcasting.



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Check our facts!

Fashion:



Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing - Rita J. Adrosko

Natural Dyes, Our Global Heritage of Colours - Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, 2010.

Dyeing of Textiles with Natural Dyes - Ashis Kumar Samanta and Adwaita Konar, Institue of Jute Technology, University of Calcutta.

The Colour Red: A History in Textiles - NPR Morning Edition, 2007.

Acadia:

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians by John Mack Faragher

History of the Acadians: Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and History

The Acadians - Timeline : CBC.ca

Tintamarre: On the Trail of Acadians in North America - National Film Board documentary

Monument-Lefebvre National Historic Site

The Acadians - Louisbourg : Canadian History Project

“Mi’kmaq/Metis/Acadian colonialism from deportation to tar sands” - YouTube video from Louise Lanteigne

Food:

La cuisiniere bourgeouise : Our vegetable soup recipe


Torey's list of Canadian history book recommendations:

(Note: The recipient of this list was looking for general overviews of Canadian history. This list would look very different if there had been specific interests at play! My own bias and history as someone who studied Canadian history in Ontario, Nova Scotia and the Yukon is also quite obvious here.)

A Little History of Canada by H.V. Nelles
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Canada: A Portrait in Letters by Charlotte Gray
Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
My Ninety Years by Martha Black
The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush or The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton, with a great big caveat that you need to take the narrative with a grain of salt. Excellent storyteller, not big on citing his sources.


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