These are the earliest ever photographs of Canada
Hannah Foster-Roe
18 December 2023
Images of a new nation being born
Ross, Alexander, Best & Co., Winnipeg/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1840: Niagara Falls, Ontario
Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796-1858)/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1846: portrait of Maungwudaus, Chief of the Mississauga First Nation
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1858: prairie tents outside the Red River Settlement, Manitoba
Humphrey Lloyd Hime/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1860: York boat on the Red River, Manitoba
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1860: the Welsford-Parker Monument in Halifax, Nova Scotia
W. Chase/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1863: Soda Creek, British Columbia
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1864: delegates at the Charlottetown Conference, Prince Edward Island
George P. Roberts/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1869: Niagara Falls Railway Suspension Bridge, Ontario
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1870: Breakneck Steps in Quebec City, Quebec
Louis-Prudent Vallee/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1870: Saint John, New Brunswick
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1885: driving the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Craigellachie, British Columbia
Ross, Alexander, Best & Co., Winnipeg/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1887: City Hall and Volunteer Monument in Winnipeg, Manitoba
William McFarlane Notman/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1889: view of Calgary from Elbow River, Alberta
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1890: Illecillewaet Glacier, British Columbia
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1890s: Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1895: collision on the Bay of Quinte Railway, Ontario
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1897: cedar tree in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, British Columbia
William McFarlane Notman (1857-1913)/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1899: Front Street in Dawson, Yukon Territory
Hegg/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1990: panorama of Perce Rock, Quebec
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1900: Inuit community along the Thelon River
James Williams Tyrrell/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1900: Hudson's Bay Company transport at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
C. W. Mathers/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1900: residential school in Elkhorn, Manitoba
BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives/CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons
1900: drying cod in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1904: Banff Springs Hotel, Alberta
Musee McCord Museum/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1904: aftermath of Toronto’s Great Fire, Ontario
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1909: claiming the Arctic archipelago for Canada
Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1910: Charles Doolittle Walcott’s family campsite in the Canadian Rockies
Smithsonian Institution/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1912: damage from the Regina Cyclone, Saskatchewan
This Old Postcard/Alamy
1917: building wrecked by the Halifax explosion, Nova Scotia
Library of Congress//Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1919: the Prince of Wales presents medals in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
1919: scene from the Winnipeg General Strike, Manitoba
L.B. Foote/Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
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