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ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

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Nation Building

Gallery - Asserting Our Presence

Photography has been an important imaginative tool in documenting how private and governmental interests have developed across the country, asserted their influence and impacted communities from coast to coast. To viewers at the time of their creation, these photographs also confirmed Canada's sovereignty over its many regions. For example, photographs could show that official Canadian institutions made their mark on even the most remote landscapes.

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Photograph of North Mounted Police officers with gun carriages, standing in line at attention or on horseback, with several buildings in the background, Regina, 1885

North-West Mounted Police barracks
Regina, Saskatchewan, 1885
Photographer: O.B. Buell
PA-118754
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Series of five photographs providing a panoramic view of Toronto, from York Street to Bay Street, 1856

Five-part panorama showing York Street to Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario, 1856
Photographer: Armstrong, Beere & Hime
PA-186733
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Series of four photographs providing a panoramic view of Toronto, from King Street West to York Street North, 1856

Four-part panorama showing King Street West to York Street North
Toronto, Ontario, 1856
Photographer: Armstrong, Beere & Hime
PA-186719
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Series of three photographs providing a panoramic view of Toronto Bay, 1856

Three-part panorama showing Toronto Bay
Toronto, Ontario, 1856
Photographer: Armstrong, Beere & Hime
PA-186715
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Stereograph of the interior of the centre tube of the Victoria Bridge, Montréal, circa 1859

Interior of Victoria Bridge centre tube
Montréal, Quebec, ca. 1859
Photographer: William Notman
PA-194577
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Photograph of five men standing outside a log cabin marked RESTAURANT, Stewart River, Yukon, 1899

McLean cabin
Stewart River, Yukon, March 1899
Photographer: H.J. Woodside
PA-016245
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Photograph of a two-storey white wooden building, Whitehorse, Yukon, circa 1901-1920

Building housing the post office, customs office, court, Crown lands office and mining recorder
Whitehorse, Yukon, ca. 1901-1920
Photographer: unknown
PA-126306
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Photograph of a group of men hoisting a flag on Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), 1904(?)

Hoisting the flag, Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, 1904?
Photographer: Albert Peter Low
PA-038265
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Photograph of a group of Inuits who are standing beside a ship and having their photographs taken, ??, April 22, 1907

Inuit of Igloolik Island beside the ship S.S Arctic
Albert Harbour, near Pond Inlet, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), 22 Apr. 1907
Photographer: unknown
PA-061515
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Photograph of pedestrians walking in front of the Canadian Pavillion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wimbley, England, 1924-1925

Canada Pavillion at the British Empire Exhibition
Wimbley, England, 1924-1925
Photographer: unknown
PA-076952
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