Views of Québec and vicinity. Portraits, primarily of Members of the Legislative Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The following views of Québec are documented: Champlain Market; Durham Terrace; Esplanade; Grand Battery; Montmorency Falls; Palace Gate; Place d'Armes; Royal Fusiliers Camp, with Ile d'Orléans in distance; Porte St. Jean; Porte St. Louis; Rue St. Louis.
The following individuals are documented: Hon. Sir Adams G. Archibald, Mr. Atkinson, Robert Bell, Marshall S. Bidwell, James L. Biggar, Hon. A.J. Fergusson Blair, John Bright, Ensign M.W. Brock, Malcolm Cameron, Hon. Malcolm C. Cameron, Hon. Sir Alexander Campbell, Sir Frederick B.T. Carter, Hon. Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier, Hon. Edward B. Chandler, Hon. Jean-Charles Chapais, James Cockburn, George Coles, Hon. James G. Currie, Hon. Robert B. Dickey, James Dickson, Hon. Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Chester Draper, Mrs. Chester Draper, Empress Eugenie, Hon. François Evanturel, Charles Fisher, Hon. Michael H. Foley, Hon. Sir Alexander T. Galt, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Lt. Col. William Gordon, John Hamilton Gray [President of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island 1863-1865], John Hamilton Gray [M.L.A. New Brunswick], Hon. Thomas H. Haviland, William A. Henry, Hon. Sir Francis Hincks, Hon. Joseph Howe, Hon. Sir William P. Howland, T. Sterry Hunt, Hon. Lucius S. Huntington, Lt. Col. I.G. Irvine, Mr. A. Jackes, John M. Johnson, Maurice Laframboise, Sir William E. Logan, Lord Lyons.
The following individuals are documented: Hon. Jonathan McCully, Hon. Andrew A. Macdonald, Hon. Donald McDonald, Sir John A. Macdonald, Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald, Hon. William McDougall, Mrs. William McDougall [née Mary Adelaide Beatty], Robert MacFarlane, Archibald McKellar, Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, William Lyon Mackenzie, Hon. Peter Mitchell, Viscount Monck, Hon. James Morris, Hon. Sir Oliver Mowat, Emperor Napoleon III, Mr. Ogden, James O'Halloran, Edward Palmer, Lord Palmerston, Dr. Parker, Alfred Patrick, Mrs. Alfred Patrick, Mr. Pearce, Capt. W.L. Pemberton, William H. Pope, H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, Capt. Francis Retallack, Joseph Rymal, Satanta [a member of the Kiowa tribe], Mr. Scott, Walter Shanly, Sir Ambrose Shea, Hon. Louis V. Sicotte, Alexander M. Smith, Hon. William H. Steeves, Misses Steeves [daughters of Hon. W.H. Steeves], Hon. Sir Etienne P. Taché, Hon. Ulric-Joseph Tessier, Hon. Sir Samuel L. Tilley, Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, Mrs. Charles Tupper, Lewis Wallbridge, Edward Whalen, Hon. Adam Wilson, Erastus Wiman, Mrs. Erastus Wiman, Master Wiman, Amos Wright.
Photos by unknown photographers and by the following: W.G. Chamberlain, Denver; Disderi, Paris; Robert Milne, Hamilton; William Notman, Montréal.
The album also contains 13 miscellaneous items, as follows: 11 carte de visite copies of paintings; paper money from Haiti [1 item]; 1 coloured greeting card.
Biographies of the Members of the Legislative Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada are found in the accession file.