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A Photographic Memory

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Essays

The Canadian Mosaic

Gallery - Making Canada Home

Once in Canada, new immigrants were challenged with the prospect of adapting their traditions to suit Canadian society. They too used the photographic medium as an empowering device and recorded how their communities adjusted to their new environments, changing some ways of life while keeping others.

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Photograph of a group at a Ukrainian wedding posed in front of a house with a thatched roof, 1911

Portrait of a Ukrainian wedding
Unknown location, 1911
Photographer: unknown
PA-088572
Source

Photograph of nine children and a dog in a turnip field at the Peabody Brothers Farm, Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1912

Children in turnip field at Peabody Brothers farm
Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1912
Photographer: William James Topley
PA-010724
Source

Photograph of a group of Black women standing in front of the Y.W.C.A. boarding house, Toronto, circa 1913-1917

Group portrait in front of the Y.W.C.A. boarding house, 698 Ontario Street
Toronto, Ontario, ca. 1913-1917
Photographer: William James
PA-126710
Source

Black and white photograph of a man and his four children in front of their family grocery store

Sutekichi Miyagawa and his four children Kazuko, Mitsuko, Michio and Yoshiko, in front of his grocery story, the Davie Confectionary
Vancouver, British Columbia, March 1933
Photographer: unknown
PA-103544
Source

Photograph of the Canadian Hungarian News building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1946

Canadian Hungarian News building, 210 Sherbrooke Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1946
Photographer: unknown
PA-147705
Source