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ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

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The Canadian Mosaic

Gallery - The Faces of War

Photography was frequently used to document the government's many domestic responses to international conflict. These photographs illustrate how war-related policies affected and contributed to the diversity of Canada; they depict immigration as a humanitarian effort, and illustrate how the repression of certain populations and the sheltering of others was thought to help the Commonwealth in times of war.

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Photograph of seven Armenian boys standing before a grove of trees, Georgetown, Ontario, 1925

Portrait of boys from the Armenian Boys' Farm
Georgetown, Ontario, 1925
Photographer: unknown
PA-147570
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Photograph of a group of British children beside their luggage upon their arrival in Montréal, Quebec, 1940

Third contingent of British children upon their arrival in Canada
Montréal, Quebec, July 7, 1940
Photographer: Montréal Gazette
PA-129617
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Photograph of a Royal Canadian Navy officer holding a sheet of paper while questioning two Japanese-Canadian fishermen and confiscating their boat, Esquimault, British Columbia, 1941

Royal Canadian Navy officer questioning Japanese-Canadian fishermen while confiscating their boat
Esquimault, British Columbia, December 9, 1941
Photographer: unknown
PA-112539
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Photograph of the Honourable Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, holding two children while two displaced German women look on, at the St. Paul l'Ermite reception centre, 1948

Honourable Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, greets displaced persons arriving from Germany to Canada at the St. Paul l'Ermite reception centre
Saint-Paul-l'Ermite, Quebec, January 1948
Photographer: B. Glunz
C-049400
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