Skip to content | Skip to institutional links

Common menu bar links

Institutional links

ARCHIVED - Framing Canada:
A Photographic Memory

Archived Content

This archived Web page remains online for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. This page will not be altered or updated. Web pages that are archived on the Internet are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. As per the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada, you can request alternate formats of this page on the Contact Us page.

Essays

Commercial Photography

Gallery - The Way They Were

Photographs of commercial activities can now provide us with useful information about the business practices and popular commercial trends of bygone eras. The fact that we can place these photographs in new contexts reveals that each image contains many layers of meaning.

Previous | View Gallery List | Next

Photograph of a store window showing mannequins beside a Christmas tree, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1916

Christmas window display, Hudson's Bay Company Store
Vancouver, British Columbia, 1916
Photographer: unknown
PA-122005
Source

Stereograph showing market stalls set up in the lower town, Québec, circa 1860s

View of the market stalls, Québec
Québec, Quebec, ca. 1860s
Photographer: Ellison and Company
PA-148800
Source

Photograph of a group of men outside a building which bears the sign APOTHECARIES HALL, Brandon, Manitoba, 1882

Apothecaries Hall, 8th Street and Rosser Avenue
Brandon, Manitoba, May 1882
Photographer: Marjorie Riley
PA-124512
Source

Photograph of the interior of a store, Ottawa, date unknown

Interior of Murphy Gamble Store, Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario, unknown date
Photographer: William James Topley
PA-009090
Source

Photograph of the bottling plant of Pelissier's Brewery, Fort Garry, Manitoba, 1919

The bottling plant of Pelissier's Brewery
Fort Garry, Manitoba, 1919
Photographer: unknown
PA-139527
Source

Photograph of a Calgary street showing buildings, cars, streetcars and lamposts, date unknown

1st Street South West looking towards the Calgary Herald building
Calgary, Alberta, unknown date
Photographer: Department of the Interior
C-001851
Source