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Meensa Products Cooperative Plant in Anzac

A middle-aged Nancy Woodward stands in the kitchen stirring a pot of jam with two other women in the background, one is fixing something on a second stovetop.

Date: 1965. Source: Ted Walter’s Collection, Fort McMurray Heritage Society

Meensa Products Cooperative plant in Anzac, where three women were preparing jam. On the left, Nancy Woodward was stirring the boiling jelly. In the center, Arlene Walter was filling jars, and on the right (foreground) Dorothy Hershberger was testing the sugar content of the jelly with a spectrometer. Meensa is the Cree word meaning berry.