For thousands of 20th-century brides, the Canadian Cook Book, the country’s first mass-produced book of recipes, unlocked the mysteries of domestic science.
Drawing on a wide range of written and oral archives, this year’s recipient examined the physical, political, and cultural making of the Canada-US border from the 1770s to the early twentieth century in beautiful and compelling prose.
In a perfect world, the thirty women on this list would be household names. But for too long history textbooks have focused on great men, to the exclusion of all others.