The photographs are examples of the work done by Mr. Hunter as an independent photographer from the early 1950s until the 1990s. They include work done for industry, primarily in Canada, and a large amount of stock photography done mainly for editorial work all around the globe. Aerial photography, which was one of Mr. Hunter's strengths, can be found throughout the various parts of the fonds. The fonds also includes a series of portraits from Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Quebéc, Alberta, Yukon, and British Columbia; some of the portraits include, Moira Shearer, John Nesbit, A.Y. Jackson, and King George VI with Queen Elizabeth.
More specifically, a selection of the content includes: construction on Churchill Falls power project, Churchill Falls, Nfld., 1969; Signal Hill and Confederation Building, St. John's Nfld., 1963; Fredericton, N.B., 1959; United Asbestos Corp. open pit mine, Black-Lake, Que., 1960; Sorel harbour, Sorel, Que., 1961; iron ore shipping facilities, Sept-Isle, Que., 1964; Montreal, Que. including: oil refineries and cement plants in Montreal East; the central business district in the late 1960's, Expo 67 site, Habitat, Montreal harbour, and the Jacques-Cartier Bridge; Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Que.; aerial views of the villages of Fogo and Barr'd Islands, Notre-Dame Bay, Nfld., Edmonton and Calgary, Alta. and Goderich, Ont., Quebec City, QC (including the Citadel, Chateau Frontenac, Lower Town, Laval University, the harbour, Ile d'Orléans, and ships on St. Lawrence River at Quebec, Quebec), Vancouver and Victoria, BC; Air Canada Reserves; Vancouver airport, Vancouver, B.C., 1959; Edmonton Airport, Edmonton, Alta., 1959; Calgary Airport, Calgary, Alta.; DC 8 flight simulator; dart engine testing; Eldorado Mining & Refining Ltd., Port Hope Refinery, Port Hope, Ont.; Clairtone Sound Corp., Stellarton, N.S.; portraits of TCA Chef Frank Salverda and George Lothian; Bell Telephone Company's publication "Bell Canada Workers of Today are Tomorrow's Bell Canada Pioneers"; Spartan Air Services, dating from the 1950s; Clairtone Sound, 1966; Heinztmann Pianos, 1964; James Howden Company, 1959; Orenda Engines.
