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The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

In 1923, Dorothy Margaret Macleay, 14, and her younger sister Gertrude Maxine, 12, began producing a monthly newspaper. They called it the Rocking P Gazette, after the family's Rocking P ranch ...
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‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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Technicians at the Government of Alberta Dairy and Food  Canada Laboratory (1970)

Technicians at the Government of Alberta Dairy and Food Canada Laboratory (1970)

A great collection of color portraits of staff at a Canadian lab in 1970 ...
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Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

Beautiful Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides of Canadian Plants and Flowers (1920)

William McCalla, a botanist and teacher, made over 1,000 hand-coloured lantern slides of Albertan flowers ...
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An Extraordinary Road Trip Across Canada in 1954

An Extraordinary Road Trip Across Canada in 1954

Helen Salkeld, Audrey James, Anna Brown and the photographer Rosemary Gilliat took a 7,700 mile trip of a life time across Canada... ...
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World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

Coloring the old brings the past to life ...
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‘Terminal City’: Extraordinary Photos of Vancouver 1972-1982

‘Terminal City’: Extraordinary Photos of Vancouver 1972-1982

Greg Girard's photographs of Vancouver before gentrification ...
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Advertising 1955: 30 Brilliant Ads from Mid-Century Canada

Advertising 1955: 30 Brilliant Ads from Mid-Century Canada

Tour through any women's interest magazine from the 1950s, and you'll quickly notice how different ...
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Shoppers, Voyeurs and Loiterers: Vancouver in Color – 1953-1969

Shoppers, Voyeurs and Loiterers: Vancouver in Color – 1953-1969

A year after moving to Canada from his native Germany, Fred Herzog (born 1930) began taking photographs ...
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Mysterious Photographs Of The Man From The Ministry Who Demolished Old Montreal (1967)

Mysterious Photographs Of The Man From The Ministry Who Demolished Old Montreal (1967)

In 1960s Montreal there was a pressing need to improve housing. Many older areas of the ...
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Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Montreal, Canada, 1949. Le Devoir publishes a series of articles decrying lax policing and the spread ...
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Vintage Photos Of Canada’s First Nations People (1880s)

Vintage Photos Of Canada’s First Nations People (1880s)

In 1884, Alex Ross (1851-1894) moved from Winnipeg to Calgary, Alberta, where he opened a photographic studio. ...
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