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The Lure of the Lower Saint Lawrence: Home of Villa Les Rochers

The Lure of the Lower Saint Lawrence: Home of Villa Les Rochers

Transcript for “The Lure of the Lower Saint Lawrence: Home of Villa Les Rochers”, a documentary with moving film, four interview subjects alternately speaking, and a montage of […]
The Last Spike

The Last Spike

In this most iconic of Canadian historical photographs, the Hon. Donald A. Smith is seen driving the commemorative last spike to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway, on the […]
Sir John A. Macdonald Speaks About Canada’s Constitution

Sir John A. Macdonald Speaks About Canada’s Constitution

Transcript of Sir John A. Macdonald’s words, on the subject of Canada’s Constitution, read by Nick Olcott: [Nick Olcott] “I would again implore the House not to let this […]
The Old Flag, the Old Policy, the Old Leader

The Old Flag, the Old Policy, the Old Leader

“The Old Flag, the Old Policy, the Old Leader” is a poster (unsigned & anonymous) used during Sir John A.’s last political campaign in 1890.  
Villa Les Rochers, c. 1883

Villa Les Rochers, c. 1883

Villa Les Rochers, c. 1883 has no known provenance although it was likely taken by James Topley, Sir John A. Macdonald’s Ottawa photographer who travelled to the Rivière-du-Loup […]
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.     […]