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Two First Nations women at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

Here we have an example of photojournalism before photojournalism was entirely practical. It would still be a few decades before thehalftone process made it efficient and therefore cost-effective to print photographs and text side-by-side. In this…

The front cover of Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the West, edited by Dr. Patricia Demers.

P. Burns and Co. was a large Prairie abattoir and packing-plant company. Established by Pat Burns in 1890 in Calgary, the company soon expanded to Vancouver and Edmonton, and changed its name to Burns and Co. in 1923. Though Burns and Co. specialized…

Acquired in honour of Dr Lorne Tyrrell

A crew of men tow logs behind a rowboat, for use by a steam wheeler.