Canadians Collection

Olympic arrives at Halifax, WW1, dazzle painting
The troopship Olympic arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a cargo of 6000 Canadian soldiers. It was the premier troopship in the world and throughout the First World War transported 70

The Canadians at Ypres, 1915, depicting the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry at Bellewaerde Ridge on 8th May 1915

Iroquois Indians, Canada

Strathcona's Horse Regiment, Royal Canadians - Boer War Military print, photo by Pittaway, Ottawa

Canadians Awake, Our Land's at Stake! - WW2 Canadian envelope Date: 1941

CANADIAN FUNERAL 1726
A funeral among Native Canadians is the occasion for feasting and rejoicing Date: 1726

Ice-cutting near Montreal, Canada
A party engaged in cutting ice into slabs in the winter months in frozen lakes near Montreal, Canada. In the background is the great bridge conveying the trans-continental line of the Canadian

Canadian Indians in traditional dress taking part in the war. Date: 1916

9th Para & 1st Canadian Para Bns Memorial, Varaville
This grey marble Memorial was erected on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. At the bottom is a bronze plaque presented to Varaville by Canadian 1st Para veterans and unveiled in June 1997

Canadian Highland Light Infantry Memorial, Buron
Early on the morning of 7 June the Highlanders and the Sherbrooke Fusiliers were advancing towards Buron when they came under fire from machine guns and anti-tank weapons

Canadian Maple Leaf sign on Juno Route Route 2
The Souvenir Juno Committee consists of some 60 Communes that have pledged to Remember the Canadians who fell during the Liberation.Tours using three separate Routes are featured with a Maple Leaf

Memorial to the Regina Rifles, Bretteville, Normandy
The Reginas landed on D-Day opposite one of the most heavily defended German positions along Juno Beach. Using the DD tanks of the 1st Hussars the Canadians got ashore

Local Memorial in Cairon to Canadian Liberators
The Souvenir Juno Committee consists of some 60 Communes that have pledged to Remember the Canadians who fell during the Liberation

Royal Winnipeg & 1st Canadian Scottish Memorial
This double memorial has a plaque to the Rifles on the left and to the Scottish on the right. Between them is a poem by Paul Eluard

Royal Regina Rifles & 1st Canadian Hussars
The Memorial is in Norrey en Bessin which the Canadians took on 7 June having landed on Juno Beach as part of the 3rd Canadian Divison

CANADIAN LACROSSE GAME
Canadians play lacrosse. Date: circa 1860

LACROSSE IN BELFAST 1876
Canadians and Iroquois native Americans play lacrosse in Belfast. Date: 1876

TRADING BETWEEN CANADIAN
French-Canadian coureurs du bois trading with native Canadians Date: 19th century

Duke of Kent and his children, 1940
Prince George, Duke of Kent poses with his son, Prince Edward, and daughter, Princess Alexandra, alongside a group of Canadian nurses. 1940

Canadas part in the Somme advance, Matania, WW1
Canadas part in the Somme advance - a brilliant affair at Courcelette. The capture of the sugar refinery at Courcelette by the Canadians on 15 September 1916

Canadian Inuksuk Monument Utah Beach Museum
It is estimated that about 3, 000 Native Canadians (Inuit, Metis and others) fought in WW2 of whom some 200 died. The Memorial, built by Inuk Elder Peter Irniq was unveiled on 30 October 2005

Gracie Fields, 1940
Actress Gracie Fields in her capacity as an Honorary Captain in Canadas Womens Volunteer Reserve Corps. 1940

WW1 - Canadian Volunteers
WW1 - The Canadian Volunteers, also known as The Moose Jaw Legion of Frontiersmen, photographed in front of a band stand at their first appearance

Canadian soldier with Tabby the cat, WW1
A member of the A company of the 1st Battalion of Canadian troops in Bustard Camp on Salisbury Plain, with " Tabby" the Persian cat brought across the Atlantic with the men. Date: 1914

The God in the Machine 1916
A detachment of happy, souvenir laden Canadians coming out of action. Date: 1916

Laying the Tables at the Gordon Services Club
A volunteer lays the tables at the Gordon Services Club, based at the former Gordon Hospital in London. The Club, established in June 1940 by the Canadian Red Cross

The Gordon Services Club, 1940
Margerie Doutie writing up the menu for the Gordon Services Club, based at the former Gordon Hospital in London. The Club, established in June 1940 by the Canadian Red Cross

The Maple Leaf Club, Brabazon House
Two soldiers share a joke with Mrs Murray, matron of the Maple Leaf Club, established during the War to provide food, medical treatment and accommodation for Canadian soldiers stationed in Britain

Photograph of officers of the Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Lewis gun class, Silesia, 1921.From an album of 58 photographs associated with the Prince of Wales

D-Day Canadians landing, Normandy, France, WW2
D-Day Canadians landing at Bernieres-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 1944. 1944

Native Canadian with Wigwams or Tepees
A Native Canadians stand in front of a group of wigwams or tepees. A horse and dog are alongside. Date: circa 1895

Canadian Indians
Blackfoot Indians crossing a river to find a new homes. Date: 1882

NFS firewoman
May (Mary) Belbin was a firewoman at Testwood where the Canadians trained. She served refreshments when the service had field days

Herbert Morrison (centre) with Fire Chief Huff (left of picture) welcome the Canadians outside Canada House in London mid 1942

The new fire station in Plymouth for the Canadians, built by the men themselves with help from special construction gangs

Native Canadians Separat
The Ceremony of a DIVORCE, as practised by the natives of CANADA, in North America over a symbolic fire : it seems that she keeps the girls, he the boys Date: circa 1730

Trading between Canadian
French-Canadian coureurs du bois trading with native Canadians Date: 19th century

Prince of Wales & Prince Albert visit the Beaver Hut
Just able to squeeze through the crowd and preceded by a policewoman, the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor) and Prince Albert (George VI)

Douglas B-18A Bolo -these of US Armys 27th Reconnaissance Squadron Used by both the US and Canadians for offshore patrols

WW1 - Western Front - Canadian troops in action at St. Eloi
WW1 - Western Front - Canadian troops in action, destroying a hill near St. Eloi, a point used by the Germans as an observation post. Date: 1916

WW1 - German Prussian Guard driven back to their trenches
WW1 - The Canadian 90th Winnipeg Rifles in action after suffering heavily from the Huns gas tactics. Rushing from their trenches

The Three Musketeers - Canadian sharpshooters, WW1
" The Three Musketeers" of Princess Patricias Own (Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry) firing from a mound with a fine view of the German first line trenches

Canadians in camp at Salisbury Plain with bear mascot
Canadian troops in camp at Salisbury Plain posing with their regimental pet, a black bear. There is no hard fast evidence to suggest so in the caption but it is possible that this is Winnie

TRUDEAU, Pierre-Elliott (1919). Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. Oil

History of the Missions, 1863. Montreal in the 19th c
HENRION, Mathieu-Richard-Auguste, Baron of (1805 - 1862). General history of the missions from the thirteenth century to the present day. 1863

A Canadian giving his dog a bath behind the lines
A dog endures the ordeal of a bath in a small basin somewhere behind the lines on the Western Front. According to the caption

Illustrated War News - Canadians on the Western Front
Front cover of The Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of Canadian soldiers having their lunch in a trench on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Illustrated War News - Dog in a trench mortar, WW1
Front cover of the Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of a small dog peering out of the gun barrel of a German trench mortar captured by Canadians on the Western Front. Date: 1917

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