Discover if your Canadian or American ancestors were involved in the baking trade at the end of the nineteenth century.
Discover if your Canadian or American ancestors were involved in the baking trade at the end of the nineteenth century.
At at time when few domestic houses would have had access to reliable ovens bakeries offered a variety of goods that could not be made at home. The Directory of the Biscuit and Cracker Bakers of the United States and the Dominion of Canada contains alphabetical lists of bakers, and bakers listed by State, City and Towns. Also included are listings and advertisements of suppliers.
Listings for individual bakeries list their name, town and, for the USA the population size they served.
Sections of interest
From image number 40 Foreign bakers has listings for various countries including Australia, England, Ireland, Mexico, Russia and Scotland.
Image 46 A highly coloured advertisement from a printing company Gunn Curtis
From image 143 a directory of Flour Mills by state
From image 157 a list of Hotels by state