Canadian Collection (#33)

A Wash & Shave, Canadians on the Western Front, WW1
Canadian soldiers having a wash and shave somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Marie Prevost in 1923
Marie Prevost (1898 - 1937), Canadian silent film actress. Photographed here in the Stroll Picture Threatre in " Brass". 1923

Canadian journalists visit France, Western Front, WW1
Canadian journalists visiting the Western Front in France during World War One. Seen here with Lord Lovat at a Canadian sawmill. Date: circa 1916

New element in British Navy by G. H. Davis
The new element in the British Navy: how the four corners of the Empire are combining to support the central Home Navy. Showing how Canada, Australia

Government Inspectors Visit to Canadian Emigrant
A Canadian Government Inspector visits a young emigrant from Britain to Canada, placed there by the Waifs and Strays Society

Empress of Britain by G. H. Davis
The ocean liner, Empress of Britain, a steamship owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company pictured in detailed cross-section by the artist G. H. Davis

Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl
Mary Pickford (1892-1979), The Worlds Sweetheart, in The Poor Little Rich Girl. She was a silent film star, early Hollywood pioneer, and co-founder of United Artists. Date: 1917

Brown Derby Restaurant, Hollywood, California, USA
Brown Derby Restaurant, North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 1950

White Horse, Yukon, Canada
White Horse (or Whitehorse), Yukon, Canada -- it expanded rapidly during the Klondike Gold Rush. Date: circa 1906

White Pass Summit, Alaska, USA -- as the two flags suggest, it is on the border with Canada, important during the Klondike Gold Rush. Date: early 20th century

German prisoners captured in WWI, 1918
Some of the German prisoners of war captured by the Canadian forces in August 1918: a typical scene in the preliminary collecting cages

Ethel Catherwood
Ethel Mary Catherwood (1908-1987), Canadian athlete and winner of the first womens Olympic gold medal in the high jump at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, setting a world record in the process

Advert for Gorringes: womens animal scarves 1930
Smart neckwear for the spring. Gorringes sponsor of Artemis fashion furs 1930. A range of animal scarves: natural silver fox scarf, Canadian sable straight scarf

Seance of the Philip group, Toronto, Canada. This science-based group invented an imaginary spirit, Philip, who seemed to communicate as effectively as any real spirit from the other world

Poster, Empress of Britain World Cruise
Poster advertising a world cruise on the Canadian Pacifics Empress of Britain cruise liner. Date: 1934

Poster design for Quebec Winter Sports, via Canadian Pacific, showing a couple on skis in in a snowy landscape. Date: 20th century

Poster design for Canadian Pacific travel, Homeward Bound, featuring an elegant woman in a purple outfit, standing with her luggage and golfing bag in front of a red and white chequered flag

Queen Elizabeth II in Canada
During her royal tour of Canada the Queen, accompanied by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Lester Pearson, visited the Expo 67 fair in Montreal. Date: 1967

Choosing trees for felling
Lumber industry : choosing trees for felling in a Canadian forest. Date: 1934

William S. Fielding, Vanity Fair, WHO
WILLIAM STEVENS FIELDING (1848-1929) Canadian Liberal politician. Eighth Premier of Nova Scotia (188496), and federal finance minister 1896-1911 and 1921-25

Collecting maple tree sap
A man collecting sap from maple trees in a Canadian forest; the sap is turned to sugar in the traditional way by heating it in a large metal bath over a wood fire. Date: 1934

A charge of the Canadians at Ypres
Canadian soldiers charging the enemy at Ypres in 1916. The Canadians were reported to have showed their splendid fighting quality, in retaking trenches captured by the Germans the previous month

Canadian soldiers eating lunch in a trench
Canadian soldiers eating their lunch in a trench on the Western front during 1916. 1916

Lake Jasper
Native indians canoeing on Lake Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Date: 1930s

Native Canadian Worship
Native Canadians honour their deity Quitchi Manitou (variously spelt) with a huge sacrificial pyre topped with valuable goods which they hope will appease him. Date: 18th century

Canada Native Lodges
Canadian primeval forest, birch bark canoe, and Indian lodges - a simplified view of the Canadian scene. Date: circa 1860

Canadian Pioneer Family
A Victorian family in Quebec, Canada. Date: 1890s

William Dillon Otter
Sir WILLIAM DILLON OTTER Canadian military commander Date: 1843 - 1929

Sir John Macdonald
Sir JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONALD Canadian statesman Date: 1815 - 1891

Francois-Louis Lessard
FRANCOIS-LOUIS LESSARD Canadian military commander, notably in the Boer War. Date: 1860 - 1927

Girl Driving a Tractor
A girl driving a tractor on a Canadian farm. Date: early 1930s

Three of four Bell Model 47J Rangers for the Canadian De?
Three of four Bell Model 47J Rangers for the Canadian Department of Transport at Fort Worth prior to delivery to Ottawa

McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee, 126306, of the Royal Canadian Navy

Among the guests at the Centenary Conversazione held at ?
Among the guests at the Centenary Conversazione held at the Science Museum on 12 January 1966 were H.C. Luttman, Secretary of the Canadian Aeronautics

View from Lake Louise Hotel near Laggan, Alberta, Canada
View from the Lake Louise Hotel on the banks of Lake Louise near Laggan, Alberta, Canada (now rebuilt into the immense Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Hotel). Date: circa 1942

Ottawa, Canada, View from Church of the Sacred Heart Tower
Ottawa, Canada, View from the Tower of the Church of the Sacred Heart. Rural border framing the panoramic city view, featuring a young girl in a bonnet and holding a sprig of indeterminate foliage

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Canada
Head Office Building of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Canada - formerly the tallest building in the British Empire (473ft) in 1930. Date: circa 1930

Corner of Church and Victoria Streets- Amherst, Nova Scotia
Corner of Church and Victoria Streets, showing the Maritime Block - Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Alberta Parliament Buildings, Edmonton, Canada - Winter Date: circa 1910s

Typical Harvest Scene, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date: circa 1930s

Courthouse, Hotel District, Georgia St, Vancouver, Canada
Courthouse, Hotel District, Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada. Date: circa 1940

Canada - Halifax - Garrison Chapel, Public Gardens, Indians
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - A Sunday Church Parade of troops in front of the Garrison Chapel, Public Gardens, Indians in the Market Square and the City and Harbour viewed from the Park Date: 1898

Hotel Carls-Rite, Toronto, Canada - the House of Comfort - advertising itself as the Worlds Premier Hotel for Business travellers. Date: circa 1920s

Saint Pierre and Miquelon - After a heavy snowfall
Houses on Saint Pierre and Miquelon (a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near Canada) pictured after a heavy snowfall Date

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Notre Dame Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - View North and West of Notre Dame Avenue, taken from McIntyre Block. Date: 1919

Banff, Canada - Cascade Mountain and six-horse charabanc
Banff, Alberta, Canada - Cascade Mountain and six-horse charabanc Date: circa 1910s

Banff, Alberta, Canada - Goat Mountain and Spray River Date: circa 1910s

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