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Item Family, Food, and “Fashionable Watering Holes”: Upper-class Halifax recipes in the long nineteenth century(University of New Brunswick, 2025-03) Schofer, Claire; Morton, Erin; Kennedy, SeanThis thesis examines a collection of recipes from 1780 to 1902 in the Nova Scotia Archives, tracing the histories of Loyalist matriarchs through the colonial exchange of food in Halifax and the Atlantic World. Halifax's development involved the violent colonization of Mi’kmaq lands and the legacies of transatlantic slavery, linking it to the British metropole, Caribbean sugar colonies, and the West African slave coast. Halifax’s trade with the West Indies, which included goods like coffee, sugar, and rum, shaped Halifax's upper-class society. This thesis focuses on four elite families—the Almon, Wentworth, Miller, and Uniacke families—who used slave-produced ingredients in their recipes. These recipes reveal cultural influences from the transatlantic slave trade and highlight the complex connections between Halifax's culinary practices and its colonial and loyalist histories. Recipes, often overlooked, provide valuable insights into these families' ties to the British Empire.