Photos of 19th century politicians, aristocrats, and leaders; 19th and early 20th century views of monuments, buildings, rural and urban sites, railways, and boats; and depictions of historic events.
Portraits of the following individuals: Lord Aberdeen (1898); Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947); Sir William F. Butler; Edward B. Chandler (ca. 1864); three Cree chiefs (Flying in a Circle, Big Child, and Star Blanket) and one Chippewyan chief (Osoup); Crowfoot (chief of the Blackfoot, ca. 1885); George T. Dennison (1885); Hon. Robert B. Dickey; Senator Walter Hamilton Dickson (1806-1885); Mrs. John S. Ewart, née Jessie Campbell (1873); Joseph Howe (1804-1873); John Langton, Deputy Minister of Finance (ca. 1870); Maud Lansdowne (1888); Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Sir Hugh John Macdonald; Sir John A. Macdonald (ca. 1880, 1884, 1891); John A. Macdonald, son of Hugh John Macdonald; Alice May, Countess of Athlone; Hon. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Minister of Agriculture (1825-1868); Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen (ca. 1940).
Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: Duffin & Co., Winnipeg; Ewing Photo, Toronto; Gagen & Fraser, Toronto; Hall & Lowe, Winnipeg; Heath & Bullingham, Plymouth, England; Park & Co., Brantford, Ont.; Speaight Ltd., London, England; William J. Topley, Ottawa.
Portraits of the following individuals and groups: Lord Melgund, Earl of Minto; Mary Melgund, Lady Minto (1885, 1904); Lord Monck and family, Rideau Hall (ca. 1866); non-commissioned officers of the North West Mounted Police at Fort Walsh (1878); detachment of N.W.M.P. at Fort Pitt, Sask. (1885); Edward Palmer (1809-1889); Lord Strathcona (1878); E. C. Whitney; Charlottetown Convention delegates from the legislatures of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (1864); the Fathers of Confederation; the Imperial Family (ca. 1860); Liberal members of the Canadian House of Commons (1891); Major General Sir Frederick Middleton and officers of the Royal Grenadiers of the North West Field Force (1885); the Prince of Wales and his party (1860); Ottawa Cricket Club (1901); Lord Stanley's cricket team (ca. 1890). Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: Dixon; S.J. Jarvis, Ottawa; Samuel McLaughlin, Ottawa; William Notman & Son, Montréal; A.G. Pittaway, Ottawa; G.P. Roberts, St. John, N.B..
Views of the following: Confederation Chamber, Provincial Building, Charlottetown, P.E.I. (1864); maquette of the city of Québec about 1800 by J.B. Duberger; manor house at St. Andrew's East, Argenteuil, Québec; St. Laurent Parish, Ile d'Orléans, Québec; Holy Trinity Cathedral, Québec; Baldwin-Lafontaine Monument, Ottawa; Rideau Hall, Ottawa (1868); Ottawa exhibition grounds (ca. 1880); C.P.R. side wash into Bells Gravel Pit during construction of the C.P.R. bridge at Chaudière Falls, Ottawa; Calvin rafts on the St. Lawrence River hauling timber; Niagara Falls from the air (ca. 1927); Toronto (panorama, 1906); C.P.R. elevator and docks, Port Arthur (Thunder Bay, Ont.); York Factory, Man. (ca. 1922); Eastend Post, N.W.M.P., Sask. (1879); Indian dance at Barracks Square, Fort Walsh, Sask. (1878); piles of buffalo bones in Sask.. Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: W.T. Farland; J.E. Livernois, Québec; Samuel McLaughlin, Ottawa.
Views of the following: Fort Garry, Alta. (1873); Grand Trunk Railway of Canada car no. 120 (model exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, 1867); Manchester & North Eastern Lumber Railway; merchant ships "Queen Victoria" and "Peerless" (ca. 1870-1880); secretary (desk) that belonged to Sir John A. Macdonald; room in which George Etienne Cartier died, London (1873). Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: Charles Horetzky; H. Rands & Co., London.
The following events and activities are documented: meeting of an unidentified N.W.M.P. officer and Plains Indians (ca. 1885); reception of Lord Aberdeen at the home of Thomas Ritchie in Belleville, Ont. (1894); unveiling of statue of Queen Victoria by H.R.M. the Duke of Cornwall and York in Ottawa (1901); meeting of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal at the Foreign Office in London (1903). Photographs by unknown photographers and by the following: Elliott V. Fry; D.A. McLaughlin, Ottawa.
