Canada Collection (#50)

Kitwanga Totem Poles
Totem poles at Kitwanga, British Columbia, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Locomotive Construction
A brand new giant locomotive under construction, suspended from a steel girder. When finished, it will grace the Canadian Pacific Railway. Date: 1930s

Nautical Film Crew
A floating menagerie and strange crew, docked at Catalina, Canada, whilst filming a movie. Date: 1930s

Canada Dry advertisement, 1953
Mildly humorous advertisement for Canada Dry sparkling drinks featuring a photograph of two glamorous young women being flirted with by a sweaty rugby player after a game. Date: 1953

Canadian Pavilion - British Empire Exhibition
Canadian Pavilion viewed from the Lake - British Empire Exhibition of 1924 held at Wembley. Date: 1924

Vancouver Island - Manhousett Tribe Fishermen
Vancouver Island, Canada - Manhousett Tribe Fishermen (probably Kwakwaka-wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth or Coast Salish tribesmen). The word Manhousett used to caption this card is probably a derivation of

Travels into Chile, over the Andes
The Canada, a street in Santiago, Chile, South America, with buildings, people and animals. 1824

The Canadian National Lacrosse Team Date: circa 1900

Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 1st Street West looking north from 13th Avenue Date: 1910

Canada - Regina, Saskatchewan - City Hall Date: circa 1908

Queen Elizabeth II - British Columbia, 1971
Queen Elizabeth II meeting local Indian tribes during a royal tour of British Columbia in Canada as part of the centenary celebrations in June 1971. Date: 1971

Burns Banquet at Montreal
A Banquet to honour the centenary of the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns is held in the Canadian city of Montreal Date: 25 January 1859

Canada - Alberta, Calgary - View looking west
Canada - Panoramic view of Alberta, Calgary, looking west. Date: circa 1910s

Canada - Parry Sound, Ontario - James Street Date: 1908

Coronation. Waiting for VIP arrivals
The scene is set for the arrival of the Prime Ministers Procession. The coaches will deliver the Prime Ministers, Churchill, and PMs of Canada, Australia

Canada - Eglise St Vincent de Paul, Montreal Date: circa 1910s

Canada - Halifax, Nova Scotia - City Hall Date: 1910s

Canada - Newfoundland -ss Florizel at Icefields
Canada - Newfoundland - SS Florizel at Icefields - the crew boarding. A passenger liner, the Florizel was the flagship of the Bowring Brothers Red Cross Line of steamships

Canadian machine gunners with a Colt M1895, WW1
Three Canadian machine gunners with a Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed a Potato Digger, on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Queen Elizabeth II North America visit - Uplands airport
Queen Elizabeth II being welcomed by the governor general, Vincent Massey, at the start of her visit to North America. They are accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip

Cairn on the sumit of Mount Cathedral, Canada
Cairn on the summit of Mount Cathedral, near Keremeos, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Admiral Nicholson with Rear-Admiral O de Beech
Admiral William Nicholson (1863-1932) - served in World War I and, as Captain of HMS Canada, saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Pictured with Rear Admiral Sir O De Beech. Date: circa 1916

Queen Elizabeth II North America visit - Ottawa Parliament
Queen Elizabeth II, with the Duke of Edinburgh at her side, opens Canadian parliament in Ottawa. She is reading the speech from the throne, and is watched in the foreground by federal judges

Queen Elizabeth II, Canada tour 1967
Queen Elizabeth II at the Montreal Expo 67 fair during her tour of Canada in 1967 accompanied by Sir William Oliver, British commissioner-general of the exhibition

Canadian Building, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley
View of the Canadian Building from the lake at the British Empire Exhibition, held at Wembley between April and October 1924. Date: 1924

Dr Barnardos children migrating to Canada
A group of boys from one of Dr Barnardos homes onboard ship as they emigrate from Britain to Canada. Such emigration schemes aimed to give orphaned or abandoned children new lives in Canada

Curing Cod Fish - Southside, St. Johns, Newfoundland
Curing Cod Fish - Southside, St. John s, Newfoundland, Canada Date: circa 1909

Princess Elizabeth - Royal Tour of Canada
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) shakes hands with the train porters as she takes leave of the royal train and its crew at Charlottetown

Canada - Agathe des Moins
Province of Quebec, Canada - The Laurentide Inn, Agathe des Moins in the Laurentian Mountains - a resort used by families from the cities and a popular spot for Winter Sports. Date: circa 1910

Coronation. Canadian PMs coach arrives
A coach carrying Mr. St, Laurent, Canadian Prime Minister approches the Abbey West Door escorted by Canadian Mounted Police. 1953

Canadian Pacific Railway Hotel Vancouver
Canada - Vancouver, British Columbia - The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Hotel Vancouver Date: circa 1910s

Canada - Toronto - YMCA Building
Canada - Toronto - Central YMCA Building Date: circa 1910s

Doctor M W Locke in action
Doctor Mahlon William Locke (1880-1942) - the famous foot doctor of Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada performing his twist on another patient

Canada - Nova Scotia - Hampton viewed from the Gaskill Heights. Date: circa 1910

Canada - Womens Residence, Macdonald College
Canada - The Womens Residence at Macdonald College - established in 1905 and opened in 1907 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, in the West Island region of the Island of Montreal

Hunting in Canada -- two men ins snowy wood. 1892

Vancouver - Stanley Park - Douglas Fir Tree
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Stanley Park. The park contains many huge Douglas-fir (pictured), Western Red cedar, Western Hemlock, and Sitka Spruce trees. Date: 1904

Canada - Typical Mining Scene
British Columbia, Canada - Typical Mining Scene showing two prospectors blowing black sand from placer gold. The word placer refers to the alluvial deposits in modern or ancient stream beds

Canada - Buffalo at Winnipeg Date: 1905

Canada - Kamloops, British Columbia
Kamloops - a city in British Columbia, Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and near Kamloops Lake. Date: 1906

Canada - Niagara Falls - Propect Point Date: circa 1910s

Canada - Manitoba Parliament Buldings, Winnipeg. The foreground statue commemorates those from Winnipeg who lost their lives in the First World War. Date: circa 1920s

Canada - Ottawa - The Confederation Building Date: circa 1920s

Canada - Vancouver - Hastings Street
Canada - British Columbia - Vancouver - Hastings Street looking west Date: circa 1920s

Two Caribou with locked antlers
On occasion, two caribou stags when fighting become so interlocked they are unable to seperate - consequently both animals perish

Xmas in Canada
Winter in a French Canadian town (Pevibonka) - parishioners come by sledge to church. Date: 1931

Canada / Lake Okanagan
Lake Okanagan, with paddle steamer Aberdeen Date: 1890s

Advert for Canada
An advertisement encouraging emigration to Canada, free grants of land are offered. Date: 1898

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