Framing Canada
A Photographic Memory
Photos from the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), which holds approximately 30 million photographs from various public and private sources in its collection.
Representing the history of photography from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day, these images are an invaluable resource for the visual history of Canada and Canadians.
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War and Conflict - The Documentary Impulse
Private John Lewis, 1st Royal Canadian Regiment, one of the survivors of a Chinese attack
Korea, October 13, 1952
Photographer: Paul E. Tomelin
PA-146992
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War and Conflict - The Documentary Impulse
Personnel of Le Regiment de la Chaudiere in landing craft Assault
Britain, May 9, 1944
Photographer: Lt. R.G. Arless
PA-131504
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War and Conflict - The Documentary Impulse
Attacking under smoke
France, June 1916
Photographer: Henry Edward Knobel
PA-000169
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War and Conflict - The Documentary Impulse
Wartime photographs are a testament to the terrifying, traumatizing misery of war. Strict censorship would have originally prevented most of these images from reaching the nation’s living rooms back home, but once in the archive, they faithfully record the activities of combat that most of us will hopefully never know.
Young Korean boy, tired from carrying rations to the Canadian front line
Korea, April 16, 1951
Photographer: Wilfred Harold Olsen
PA-151518
Source- Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
- vintage
- black and white
- history
- Canada
- historical
- Canadian
- photography
- war
- conflict
- photojournalism
- documentary
- wartime
- photographers
- terrifying
- traumatizing
- misery
- censorship
- activities of combat
- young
- Korean
- boy
- tired
- carrying
- rations
- front line
- Korea
- April 16
- 1951
- Photographer: Wilfred Harold Olsen
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
Nursing Sisters of No. 210 Canadian General Hospital
Arromanches, France, July 23, 1944
Photographer: H.G. Aikman
PA-108172
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
Demobilized army personnel awaiting interviews with rehabilitation counsellors
Toronto, Ontario, 1944
Photographer: Ronny Jacques
C-049434
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
Agnes Roberge making casts for plastic surgery patients at Christie Street Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, 1944
Photographer: Ronny Jacques
C-049382
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
Wounded Canadian soldiers presenting a nurse with a dog from the trenches, 1916
Unknown location, 1916
Photographer: unknown
PA-000984
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
H.M.T. Olympic
Halifax, Nova Scotia, ca. 1919
British and Colonial Press
PA-030304
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War and Conflict - Shaping the Collective Memory
Canadian troops returning from Europe aboard H.M.T. Olympic
Halifax, Nova Scotia, ca. 1919
Photographer: British and Colonial Press
PA-135768
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