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Title

File consists of

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Arrangement structure

File part of

Immigration Branch. Photographic Albums of Canadian settlement. [graphic]

Accession

1. Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources collection [graphic material]
2. Collection Canada. Ministère des mines et ressources [documents iconographiques]

Date(s)

1900-1910

Place of creation

Canada

Extent

Scope and content

Album contains photographs of land settlement and farming activites on the prairies. Views include: port and grain elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario; packing plants, brick and cement works, Edmonton, Alberta; hogs and range horses at Medicine Hat, Alberta; sheep, farms, a fair at Brandon, Manitoba; exhibition stadium, Winnipeg, Manitoba; views of grain fields, farms, farm houses and buildings, harvesting, binding and threshing of grain at various places in Saskatchewan, including locations at or near Saskatoon, Davidson, Regina and Dundurn; cattle and milking cows near Rosthern and Scott, Saskatchewan; settlers and land seekers from the United States moving mainly to Tramping Lake District, Saskatchewan; disking and harrowing with steam tractor. Photographs by John Woodruff.

Conditions of access

Terms of use

Copyright: Expired.

Finding aid

A list of all the items in the album is maintained in a list in the accession file. (Paper)

Additional name(s)

Woodruff, John, 1859-1914.

Additional information

Source

Government

Related control no.

1939-443 NPC

MIKAN no.

157686