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An assortment of slides taken across Canada in the years around 1900.
Texts are mostly as on the original slides
   
    Most recently updated Fri Feb 19 10:03:19 2010

 
 
 
 

1 : A day's fishing
among the 3000 islands of the Georgian Bay



2 : American Falls
Niagara



3 : Among the islands of the Rideau Lakes
No 2100



4 : Bell Rock Lighthouse
NY (Hand tinted)

    
    

5 : Blondin Crossing Niagara Falls
He crossed several times, he died in 1897. He especially owed his celebrity and fortune to his idea of crossing the gorge below Niagara Falls on a tightrope, 1100 feet (335 m) long, 3¼ inches in diameter, 160 feet (50 m) above the water. This he accomplished, first on 30 June 1859, a number of times, always with different theatric variations: blindfolded, in a sack, trundling a wheelbarrow, on stilts, carrying a man (his manager, Harry Colcord) on his back, sitting down midway while he cooked and ate an omelet and standing on a chair with only one chair leg on the rope.

From Alun Hughes: I've just come across the picture of Blondin crossing Niagara Falls on your Magic Lantern website. You should know that the picture is reversed left-to-right and may not show Blondin, for to my knowledge he never crossed that close to the waterfalls.
Comment from Eric: Alan's paper is here. Thanks for the email and information. The image and title as shown are just as received and hand-written on the original slide!


6 : Boat with load



7 : Business establishment, Winnipeg
Canadian Scenery & Industry Set 1



8 : CPR1
    
    

9 : CPR2


10 : CPR3


11 : CPR
49



12 : Calf catching for branding on Prairie

    
    

13 : Calgary 35
45



14 : CanadianPacificLoco


15 : Cattle Ranching
Set B - 31



16 : Caumon, Alberta
.

    
    

17 : Climbing the Loop, CPRR
near Glacier, BC



18 : Dauphin



19 : Deer Hunting
Bogan Lake



20 : Dows Loop
Crows Nest, BC 14

    
    

21 : Entrance to Yale Pass
11



22 : Entrance to the Rockies
17



23 : Erecting a barn
50G



24 : Experimental Farm, Agassiz?
Canadian Scenery & Industry Set 2

    
    

25 : Farm
Edmonton District, Alberta



26 : Geyser - The Twins in motion
51 - NY16



27 : Giant Cedar tree, Vancouver
5



28 : Giant tree
Stanley Park, Vancouver - 4

    
    

29 : Grand Prairie
BC B41



30 : HRH Prince of Wales
and Aide-de-Camp, Quebec
1860??


31 : Hamilton ?GYR station
20



32 : Harvesting

    
    

33 : Highlands of Ontario
Rabbits Bay



34 : Hop Growing
A 57



35 : Horse and carts
(no text on slide)



36 : Horseshoe Falls
Niagara

    
    

37 : Ice Cave in front of the American Falls
Niagara



38 : Indian Head and Experimental Farm
Assiniboia



39 : Kicking Horse Pass
20



40 : Locking Steamer at Jones Falls
Rideau Lakse - 2067

    
    

41 : Maclean Channel
30000 islands, Ontario



42 : Maganetwan River
Rounding a bend



43 : Main Street
Winnipeg 29



44 : Man sawing

    
    

45 : Mount Burgess
(Je...) 52



46 : Mount Daly
(Je...) 52



47 : No title
.



48 : No title
20 -40

    
    

49 : No title
50



50 : Outfield, Bird's Hill
18



51 : Parry Sound, Georgian Bay
14, Set C, 242



52 : Ponies at Lake Louise
3108

    
    

53 : Portaging in Temegami District
.



54 : Potato Harvest
(Set C) 529



55 : Railroad Construction on the Prairie
No 102



56 : Raspberry plantation
Brandon

    
    

57 : River Steamer
British Columbia 34



58 : Royal Train in upper Kicking Horse Pass 1901??
19



59 : Royal Victoria Hospital
Montreal



60 : Shadow River
Tributary to Muskoka Lakes - 12

    
    

61 : Shanowap Valley
17



62 : Station Ste Agathe
PQ



63 : Steam locomotive
17



64 : The harbour, Vancouver
7

    
    

65 : The home of the mountain goat
24496



66 : Thompson River Canyon
nr. Ashcroft BC



67 : Un Groupe de colous
dans eframp d'avoine Gaspesie 92 48



68 : Unreadable Mt ... ...gan
53

    
    

69 : Untitled
56



70 : Untitled
58



71 : Untitled
63 / 26



72 : Untitled
BC B41
Halcyon Hot Springs on Upper Arrow Lake several miles north of Nakusp*

    
    

73 : Untitled
Coldstream Ranch near Vernon BC*



74 : Untitled
Number 40



75 : Vancouver CPR station
Vancouver BC 13



76 : Vancouver from footbridge
CPR station, 41/54

    
    

77 : Vancouver
1



78 : Vancouver
CPR 2



79 : Vineyard near Hamilton
31 - 27



80 : Waterfalls
34

    
    

81 : Wheat delivery into elevators
South Manitoba



82 : Wheat in stook
35 (Sel...)



83 : Wheat stacks
.



84 : Wind Mountains
from the Gap - 13

    
    

85 : Yale BC
10



86 : Yale on the Frazer River
Silver Ore



87 : [sailing S by SW on Lake Ontario to the islands]
 
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