Welcome to the thematic guide on the relationship between food and weather. The guide contains Background or External Information, and Primary Sources depicting this relationship in textual (often newspapers) and graphic format (often photographs).

To learn more about the resources listed here, please click the external links or images provided to be sent to their institutional pages.

* These sources are unfortunately behind a paywall.

Background/External Information

• Government of Canada Drought Watch
• Ice Tongs: Museum Description and History

Primary Resources

Textual Materials

• Vennor's Weather Bulletin, "Weather and Prices", April 1882
• Vennor's Weather Bulletin, Our August "Cold Wave", October 1882
• Vennor's Weather Bulletin, "How to Secure Vast Crops", October 1882
• The Gazette, "Bonsecours Market", July 7 1897, p.7
• The Gazette, "Hides and Tallow", July 20 1894, p. 7*
• The Gazette, "Produce", June 6 1895, p.7*
• The Gazette, "Bonsecours Retail Market", June 6 1895, p. 7*
• Sherbrooke Daily Record, "Advertisement: Ice Cream", July 4th 1919, BAnQ
• Quebec Morning Chronicle, "The Weather and The Crops", August 5th 1895, p.4, BAnQ
• Morning Chronicle, "The Weather and The Crops", July 29 1882, p.1, BAnQ
• Quebec Morning Chronicle, "The Weather and The Crops", June 19 1889, p.2, BAnQ
• Quebec Morning Chronicle, "The Weather and The Crops", July 15 1891, p.2, BAnQ
• Sherbrooke Daily Record, "Good Progress Still Shown by Quebec Props", August 31 1928, BAnQ

Graphic Materials

• Library and Archives Canada, "(Relief Projects - No. 81). Storing ice in the ice house", April 1934
• "Montreal, Market Day, Summer, Jacques Cartier Square", [between 1903 and 1910?], Postcard, BAnQ