to be avoided, she wrote. Additionally, she continued to write cookbooks: by some accounts, she wrote or contributed to more than fifty of them, several of which became Canadian best-sellers. Kate Aitken died in Mississauga in 1971, at age 81, having lived for many years on property that she ran briefly as a spa, on a bend of Mississauga Road, south of Streetsville. She is buried in Beeton United Church Cemetery. Legacy In June 1973, 1,000 people gathered in Beeton Park, New Tecumseth, Canada as the Beeton Women’s Institute placed a plaque in memory of Aitken. A number of contemporary historians, including culinary expert Elizabeth Driver, have compared her to Martha Stewart, for her popularity and the high esteem in which she was held by homemakers and people who loved to cook. One of Kate's cookbooks, Kate Aitken's Canadian cook book, which was first issued in 1945, remains popular even now; it was reissued in 2004, and Elizabeth Driver wrote the introduction. Books Kate Aitken Ogilvie Cook Book (1950), Ogilvie Flour Mills Home Service Department Lovely You (1951), Collins White Circle Canadian Etiquette for Daily Living (1953), Tamblyn Edition Kate Aitken’s: It’s Fun Raising a Family (1955), Tamblyn Edition Never a Day So Bright (1956), Longmans Making your Living is Fun (1959), Longmans Kate Aitken's Cook Book: The All-Time Favourite Canadian Cook Book (1962), HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited References External links CBC Digital Archives – Kate Aitken Simcoe County Archives Blog - Kate Aitken 1891 births 1971 deaths Canadian television hosts Canadian columnists People from Simcoe County CBC Radio hosts Canadian women journalists Canadian women television personalities Canadian women columnists Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian women radio hosts Canadian women television hosts