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Photograph of Governor General Lord Grey with vice regal party including Lady Grey and Sir William Mortimer Clark, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, 1904

First Orders:
Lieutenant-Governors
View Order-in-Council:
1867-0001

Photograph of executive administrators including Lord Strathcona, Governor General, seated at left, and Sir William Mulock, Postmaster General, seated second from left, 1899

First Orders:
Department Heads
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1867-0002

Photograph of Parliament's West Block

First Orders:
Treasury Board
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1867-0003

Photograph of Sir John A. Macdonald with the British high commissioners, Washington, D.C., 1871

Treaties, Territories and Tensions
View Order-in-Council:
1873-0277

The Red River Rebellion
View Order-in-Council:
1875-0254

The North West Rebellion
View Order-in-Council:
1885-2158
1885-2181

Photograph of the original Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, featuring the Victoria Tower, completed in 1878 and destroyed by fire in 1916

Canada's Parliament Buildings
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1869-0156

Photograph of Parliament Buildings under construction, August or September 1863

Heat and Light
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1880-0999

Photograph of the Library of Parliament after 1885

Fire and Stone
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1878-0419

Indian Affairs
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1876-0167

Photograph of members of the Cree Nation at Prince Albert, 1885

Preservation of the Peace
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1883-2122

Photograph of a group of West Coast Native people wearing ceremonial raven masks and robes

Potlatch
View Order-in-Council:
1883-1465

Photograph of Robert Smith's Long Lake farm, six miles west of Edmonton, Alberta, August 1906

The Department of Agriculture
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1868-0523

Photograph of the interior of the Library of Parliament 1898

Agriculture, Culture and Copyright
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1872-0447

Photograph of members of the Ottawa Blind Association, 1917, under a banner reading SIGHT THRU WORK

Institutes for the Blind
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1888-1665G

Photograph of employees of the Dominion Atlantic Railway roundhouse, Ottawa, 1892

The Transcontinental Railway
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1881-0777

Photograph of Sandford Fleming with members an ocean to ocean expedition through Canada in 1872

Sir Sandford Fleming
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1883-1150

Photograph of the LITTLE PORTLAND ENGINE, built about 1873 for the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway, later a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway

The Pacific Scandal
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1873-0143 ½

Photograph of group including Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott

The Culture of the Civil Service
View Order-in-Council:
1880-0234

Photograph of the Governor General's Foot Guards, circa 1875

The Civil Service Rifles
View Order-in-Council:
1874-1552

Photograph of a meeting of the defence commissioners, 1862

The Defences of Canada
View Order-in-Council:
1888-1141G