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ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

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Photographic Collections

Gallery - Picturing the Canadian Marketplace

Photographs have documented the nation's economic growth, its technological achievements and its financial successes and failures. As a result, they have helped to comprehensively illustrate the national economy, an otherwise abstract concept.

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Photograph showing seven men standing on logs in a river, New Brunswick, date unknown

Log drive
New Brunswick, unknown date
Photographer: Department of the Interior
PA-165128
Source

Photograph of Allan's Mill, with a road in front on which there are people and buggies, Guelph, Ontario, circa 1855

View of Allan's Mill
Guelph, Ontario, ca. 1855
Photographer: Thomas Connon
PA-135379
Source

Stereograph showing the construction of the Victoria Bridge, Montréal, 1859

Victoria Bridge under construction
Montréal, Quebec, November 1, 1859
Photographer: William Notman
PA-181445
Source

Photograph of a timber yard, showing timbers, piers and masted sailing ships, Québec, circa 1860

View of Messrs. Gilmour and Company's booms for loading timber, Wolfe's Cove
Québec, Quebec, ca. 1860
Photographer: William Notman
PA-149093
Source

Photograph showing the construction of the Miramichi railroad bridges, Newcastle, New Brunswick, 1873

Construction of the Miramichi bridges on the Intercolonial Railway
Newcastle, New Brunswick, May 16, 1873
Photographer: François X. Labelle
PA-022033
Source

Photograph showing a group of passengers at the bow of a ship as it approaches the Canadian Pacific railway grain elevators, Fort William, Ontario, date unknown

Approaching Canadian Pacific Railway grain elevators
Fort William, Ontario, unknown date
Photographer: William James Topley
PA-009453
Source

Photograph of Main Street in Dawson City, Yukon, date unknown

Main Street, Dawson City
Dawson City, Yukon, unknown date
Photographer: Unknown
PA-044675
Source

Photograph of strike leader William Holowatsky in his cell, Timmins, Ontario, 1913

William Holowatsky, imprisoned strike leader
Timmins, Ontario, 1913
Photographer: Henry Peters
PA-029973
Source

Photograph of the display window at the Birks jewelry store, Montréal, circa 1920s

Birks window display
Montréal, Quebec, ca. 1920s
Montreal Star collection
e002291018
Source

Photograph of strikers from unemployment camps getting on top of trains to go to eastern Canada, Kamloops, British Columbia, 1935

Strikers from unemployment relief camps en route to eastern Canada during the "On to Ottawa Trek"
Kamloops, British Columbia, June 1935
Photographer: Unknown
C-029399
Source