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ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

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Essays

Photographic Collections

Gallery - Image-Makers

Photography has always had the capacity to influence sentiments and to shape public opinion. As single daguerreotypes circulated amongst family and friends, they prompted old memories and created new ones. Widely published photographs illustrated current events and major happenings across the country, and allowed Canadians to imagine themselves as part of a national community.

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Photograph, in an oval frame, of an unidentified man wearing a hat, circa 1850-1855

Portrait of unidentified man
Prince Edward Island, ca. 1850-1855
Photographer: unknown
PA-134877
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Photograph of men climbing rocks, Newfoundland, circa 1857-1859

French fishermen climbing rocks
Newfoundland, ca. 1857-1859
Photographer: Paul-Émile Miot
PA-188211
Source

Photograph of Québec as seen from Lévis, circa 1880-1890

View of Québec from Lévis
Québec, Quebec, ca. 1880-1890
Photographer: Jules-Ernest Livernois
PA-122622
Source

Black and white photograph of a woman and five girls picnicking on a blanket

Feast marking the Treaty 9 payment ceremony
Mattagami, Ontario, July 1906
Photographer: Attributed to Duncan Campbell Scott
PA-059589
Source

Composite photograph of a group of men standing in line in front of a soup kitchen, Montréal, 1931

Lineup for a soup kitchen
Montréal, Quebec, 1931
Montreal Star Collection
PA-168133
Source

Photograph showing eight Inuit women and children, Lake Harbour, Northwest Territories, 1931

Women and children outside Anglican Church
Lake Harbour, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), August 14, 1931
Photographer: D.L. McKeand
PA-102115
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Photograph of Ed Barker waiting at a bank counter while a bank employee weighs his gold, Whitehorse, 1946

Ed Barker turning in gold dust and nuggets at the bank in Whitehorse
Whitehorse, Yukon, August 1946
Photographer: Jack Long
PA-111710
Source

Photograph of a group of about thirty Inuit waiting for passengers from the R.M.S NASCOPIE, Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories, 1946

Group of Inuit awaiting the arrival of passengers on the R.M.S. Nascopie
Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), August 1946
Photographer: George Hunter
PA-166454
Source