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A Photographic Memory

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Essays

War and Conflict

Gallery - The War at Home

War galvanized each and every community and motivated those on the home front to play a part, whether it was to help the war effort or to protest against it. Photographs, in turn, depicted how the population was in flux, and recorded such things as the movement of women into the workplace, the acceptance of refugees and the expulsion and internment of targeted ethnic groups.

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Photograph showing Japanese men, women and children, most likely on a railway platform, awaiting deportation, Slocan City, British Columbia, 1946

Japanese people who had been interned during the Second World War and were being sent to Japan
Slocan City, British Columbia, 1946
Photograph attributed to Tak Toyota
C-047398
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Photograph of a group of nurses, many holding flags, and a few men standing on the steps of a building, Toronto, circa 1915

At a dinner given for reservists by the ladies of the Italian Red Cross Society
Toronto, Ontario, ca. 1915
Photographer: Rocco D'Angelo
PA-091102
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Photograph showing hundreds of soldiers seated at long tables in a hall decorated with paper chains, 1916

Christmas celebrations at a First World War internment camp
Unknown Canadian location, 1916
Photographer: unknown
C-014104
Source

Photograph showing people lining a city street, Montréal, 1917

Anti-conscription parade at Victoria Square
Montréal, Quebec, May 24, 1917
Photographer: unknown
C-006859
Source

Photograph of employees at the shrapnel shell plant at Peterborough, circa 1918

Shrapnel shell plant at Peterborough
Peterborough, Ontario, ca. 1918
Photographer: Roy
PA-025207
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Photograph of a group of about 30 British war guest children standing on a railway platform upon their arrival in Montréal, 1940

The third contingent of evacuee children from Britain arriving in Canada
Montréal, Quebec, July 7, 1940
Photographer: The Montréal Gazette
PA-142400
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Photograph of a British war bride and her young daughter on a train preparing to leave for Canada, London, 1946

Elizabeth Rae with her daughter Anne, en route to sail with the first group of British war brides on their way to Canada
London, England, February 4, 1946
Photographer: Arthur L. Cole
PA-175803
Source