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Topics
Fashion to Furnishings
Capturing Customers
Company Histories
From Order to Delivery
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Timeline
Catalogues (1880-1975)
Games and Activities
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School bellThis site contains everything you need to integrate over 40 historical mail-order catalogues into your curriculum.

Elementary Resources
Find curriculum-based activities for
Kindergarten through Grade 8.

Secondary Resources
Find curriculum-based activities for
Grades 9 to 12.

 

Webquest
Here is your link to a fun and fascinating activity you can do with your class.
Choose the Elementary Webquest
or the Secondary Webquest.

 Webquest
Record player

Catalogues
Link to the catalogue pages directly and see catalogue pages from the 1880s to the 1970s featuring clothes, sports equipment, radios and record players, or whatever interests you.

Timeline and Company Histories
Consult the catalogue timeline for a history of mail-order catalogues and catalogue companies in Canada.

 Catalogues

Topics
Read fascinating papers about subjects, from fashion to labour history to oriental rugs.

 Fashion
The Hockey Sweater

The Hockey Sweater
Roch Carrier, Maurice Richard, and The Hockey Sweater: Listen to author Roch Carrier talk about hockey and life in rural Quebec in the 1940s, and see photographs of Maurice Richard and his hockey equipment.

Mail-order Memories
Listen to and read memories of people who used mail-order catalogues over the past 60 years. See related images.

 Washing Machine

Mail-order Mix-up

Games and Activities
Find a selection of fun and educational activities geared to children ages 3 to 15 years.

 

 

   
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