This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 7Country food - Northern Canada - photographs
- 7Traditional food - Northern Canada
- 4Wild fruit - Northern Canada
- 3Medicinal plants - Northern Canada
- 3Photographs
- 22015/07/10
-
2015-08-30
Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North
-
2015-08-30
Cranberries are a traditional food among Indigenous people in Northern Canada. There are two species of cranberry. This one has an opaque skin and a mealy or pulpy fruit. The other one has a juicy berry with a translucent skin and is also known as lingonberry.
-
2015-08-30
Wild raspberries are a part of Indigenous peoples' diets in the Northwest Territories. They have also been used in traditional Indigenous healing.
-
2015-08-30
Indigenous people use rose hips as a source of vitamin C
-
.jpg "Smoking whitefish at Yellowknife")
2015-07-10
Smoking of fish is a traditional way of preserving it for winter. Many families have smoke houses at their traditional fish camps. Today, smoked fish is often bagged and frozen for later use.
-
2015-08-30
Young shoots and leaves can be boiled and eaten as greens. Stinging nettles are a good source of vitamins.
-
2015-07-10
This gooseberry bush was growing close to the shore of Frame Lake. Gooseberries have traditionally been used as a food and contain vitamin C.