Collection search - Door of No Return (Governor General Michaëlle Jean) [graphic material]

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Door of No Return (Governor General Michaëlle Jean) [graphic material]

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Date:

November 29, 2006.

Reference:

R12231-0-1-E, Volume number: 1

Item no. (creator):

1

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3722419

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Door of No Return (Governor General Michaëlle Jean)
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Date(s):

November 29, 2006.

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Place of creation:

Ghana

Extent:

1 photograph: inkjet print on paper; 61.0 x 50.8 cm.

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no language

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Consists of a portrait of Michaëlle Jean, taken at Elmina Castle in Ghana. Governor General Michaëlle Jean looks out of the "door of no return", where African slaves once left Ghana's Elmina Castle to board ships bound for the Americas and the Caribbean, including Haiti, where Jean was born.

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The Canadian Press

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Photographer: Chartrand, Fred

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The Canadian Press : The Canadian Press was created by newspaper publishers in 1917. The Canadian Press is a dynamic, agile, bilingual news agency, driven by leading-edge technology and the ability to serve multimedia news to multiple platforms. It provides real-time text, photos, audio, graphics, video and online services to newspapers, broadcasters, publishers, websites, wireless carriers, cable companies, government and corporate clients.
Source: www.thecanadianpress.com

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Exhibitions note:

Titre d'exposition: Au-delà des traits: oeuvres contemporaines du Musée du portrait du Canada. Conservatrices : Carolyn Cook et Eva Major-Marothy. Galerie d'art Beaverbrook - 24 février - 5 juin 2011. Lieu de présentation supplémentaire : Galerie d'art de Greater Victoria - 20 septembre 2012 - 6 janvier 2013

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Portraits

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Private

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2007-00454-2
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
to be viewed with the assistance of a member of the Portrait Gallery of Canada

Volume [R12231] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC [R12231] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit :The Canadian Press, Library and Archives Canada, R12231-1, e008303326
Copyright: The Canadian Press
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