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Category: Formal Portrait

Lord Monck

Lord Monck

Lord Monck, Canada’s first Governor General, photographed by William Notman in Montreal in 1866, was an early St. Patrick summer resident.  
Lady Frances Monck

Lady Frances Monck

Lady Frances Monck, the wife of Canada’s first Governor General, was photographed in Montreal, Quebec, in 1864, by William Notman. She and her husband enjoyed summers in St. […]
Portrait of James Coristine

Portrait of James Coristine

This dignified, serene oil portrait of James Coristine was painted by J.C. Forbes in 1881.  
Louis St. Laurent

Louis St. Laurent

Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was photographed by George Nakash in Ottawa, c. 1955.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, 1872

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, 1872

Sir John A. Macdonald photographed in 1872, by William Topley. One year later, Macdonald would resign as Prime Minister in the aftermath of the Pacific Scandal.     […]