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Freight piled on the shore, freshly unloaded from a steam wheeler, at Providence, Northwest Territories.

Published by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890, this brochure provides another example of the way that the CPR packaged and sold the land of Canada, and of the role that photography played in that process. Here, actual land is advertised as…

Two priests and an Inuit man pose in the frame of the All Saints Anglican Church, under construction in Aklavik, Northwest Territories.