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A Photographic Memory

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Essays

Photojournalism

Gallery - Documentation and Commemoration

The documentary capabilities of the photographic medium have made it the perfect tool with which to capture precise moments of societal change. As photographers composed these photographs, they were well aware that their cameras captured events of historic importance, and preserved them for the future.

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Photograph of a large crowd standing on a terrace overlooking the St. Lawrence River

Inauguration of Dufferin Terrace
Québec, Quebec, 1879
Photographer: Jules-Ernest Livernois
PA-118201
Source

Photograph of a crowd standing before a covered wooden platform to watch campaign speeches, Longueuil, Quebec, 1858

Nomination of candidates for Montarville to the Legislative Council of Canada
Longueuil, Quebec, October 18, 1858
Photographer: Jules-Ernest Livernois
PA-149346
Source

Photograph of a street lined with people on both sides while the funeral procession of Thomas D'Arcy McGee goes by, Montréal, 1868

Funeral procession of the late Hon. Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Montréal, Quebec, April 13, 1868
Photographer: James Inglis
C-083423
Source

Photograph of a sailing ship, steamships, and several canoes in the Saint Lawrence near Québec City, 1908

Québec tercentenary celebrations
Québec, Quebec, July 23, 1908
Photographer: unknown
C-000933
Source

Photograph of two men standing beside the car that crossed Canada by road, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1912

Thos. W. Wilby, first to cross Canada by road
Vancouver, British Columbia, 1912
Photographer: unknown
PA-029919
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Photograph of nurses lined up at two outdoor tables to receive their ballots from four officers, while one nurse votes at a ballot box, France, 1917

Nursing Sisters voting in the Canadian federal election
France, December 1917
Photographer: William Rider-Rider
PA-002279
Source

Photograph of press photographers standing and sitting around a table, unknown location, unknown date

Press Photographers
Unknown location, unknown date
Photographer: unknown
RD-000795
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Photograph of Canadian Press Photographers, unknown location, unknown date

Canadian Press Photographers
Unknown location, unknown date
Photographer: unknown
C-038122
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Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Lyon Mackenzie King and Winston Churchill, Québec, 1943

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King and Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill during the Quadrant Conference
Québec, Quebec, August 11-14, 1943
Photographer: unknown
C-031186
Source