Saturday, October 14, 2023 - 10am-4pm at Florence Filberg Centre in Downtown Courtenay

Margaret Cadwaladr

About:

Author headshotMargaret Cadwaladr is the author of Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days, her short memoir of working as a grocery cashier at Woodward’s Food Floor in Vancouver during the 1960s.

Margaret is also the author of In Veronica’s Garden: the Social History of the Milner Gardens and Woodland and A Secret Garden: the Story of Darts Hill Garden Park.

She was born in Vancouver, BC and a special interest in autobiography and life story. She currently lives in Nanaimo.

 

Books:

Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days ((Auto)Biography/Memoir History – Non-Fiction)

In Veronica’s Garden: the history of Milner Gardens and Woodland Expanded Edition

 

Margaret is based in Nanaimo.

Synopsis:

Author Margaret Cadwaladr traces her days working at Woodward’s Food Floor at 101 West Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1960s. This is an insider’s view of working as a grocery cashier in one of Western Canada’s most beloved department stores. Full colour current and historical images.

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