Ep. 24: Funerals Part II - Living On in Food and Fashion

"A stylish mourning wrap" from the Ladies' Home Journal, February 1892

Torey takes the reins this month, getting into why hair brooches were a cool thing, the importance of "reading" a mourner's clothing at the turn of the century, and how all of that changed in The Great War.

She also attempted a deep dive into defining "comfort food," had some inconclusive lasagne adventures, and took a detour to the Oka Crisis as a result.

Do you have go-to sympathy meals or food to turn to when comfort is hard to come by? Let us know--we'd love to hear about it.

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Food

Cooking for Others: A guide to giving sympathy meals from Simple Bites, a Montreal food blog
How Paul Dewar is living and dying with love and community from the Ottawa Citizen, Matthew Pearson, September 2018
Historical Mourning Practices Observed among the Cree and Ojibway Indians of the Central Subarctic Paul Hackett, American Society for Ethnohistory, 2005. [Note: As Steph explains in the episode, the research and assumptions in this article are questionable by our standards and it should not be taken as a fully accurate or respectful portrayal of the people it purports to be about.]
Death and mourning among migrants: Information guide by Laura Chéron-Leboeuf, Lilyane Rachédi and Catherine Montgomery, with the collaboration of Fabienne Siche. Narayan's story of mourning his father in Quebec first appears on page 16.

Fashion

Mourning After: The Victorian Celebration of Death from the Oshawa Community Museum
Chapter Fourteen: Funerals from Emily Holt's Encyclopaedia of etiquette: What to write, what to do, what to wear, what to say; A book of manners for everyday use, published in Toronto 1901-1915
"The Fashion in Mourning Goods" by Isabel A. Mallon, The Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 9, February 1892
Death Becomes Her: The Dark Arts of Crepe and Mourning by Arabelle Sicardi for Jezebel, October 2014
"Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags" by Suzanne Evans, from A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland in the First World War, ed. Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw, UBC Press, 2012.

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