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A formal portrait of Miriam Green Ellis, with her signature. This image was included with her contribution a memory book created by the Edmonton Women's Press Club for a departing member.

A formal portrait of Nellie McClung. This image was included with her contribution a memory book created by the Edmonton Women's Press Club for a departing member.

The community of Fort Mackay, Alberta as viewed from a boat on the river.

The community of Fort Norman, Northwest Territories.

The community of Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, viewed from a steam wheeler. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.

The community of Fort Resolution, as seen from the deck of a steam wheeler. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

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