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ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

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Essays

Sense of Space

Gallery - Sense of Scale

Photography was perhaps the most effective promotional tool when it came to attracting prospective settlers and investors to Canada. Photographs could effectively -- and sometimes deceptively -- show that Canada was a land of wealth, resources, potential and abundance.

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Photograph of a large flock of sheep on the prairies, Saskatchewan, circa 1910

Sheep on the western prairies
Saskatchewan, ca. 1910
Photographer: Charles Edward Saunders
PA-126801
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Photograph of a big hollow tree with a man lying on a park bench inside the tree, Vancouver, British Columbia, circa 1888-1900

Big Hollow Cedar, Stanley Park
Vancouver, British Columbia, ca. 1888-1900
Photographer: unknown
e002013829
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Photograph of a man in front of a rock formation, Hopewell, New Brunswick, date unknown

Man in front of rock formation, Hopewell New Brunswick
Hopewell, New Brunswick, unknown date
Photographer: unknown
PA-021073
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Photograph of foreman S. Sakamoto inspecting cucumber plants grown by Japanese-Canada women field workers, near Kamloops, British Columbia, 1948

Foreman S. Sakamoto (left) inspects cultivated cucumber plants. The field workers are Japanese-Canadian women
Near Kamloops, British Columbia, April 1948
Photographer: George Hunter
e003719334
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