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2 June 1866 Battle of Ridgeway LAC C-018737k





























Caughnawagas, Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, Toronto, broadsides:CAP02306, 1885




Major-General Middleton, C.B., Adjutant-General Walker Powell, and various commanding officers of the North-West Field Force. LAC, C-005550, William Daniel Blatchly 1885?







The Canadian Militia. Milice canadienne. LAC, C-006332, John David Kelly 1889








Rule Britannia, Montreal, 1898, National Archives of Québec




Review of Reviews, August 1899












Soldiers of the Queen: Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
































Canadians at Battle of Paardeberg, February 1900. LAC Acc. No. 1983-38-2, 1901, Arthur H. Hider











Is the statue commemorating the South African War a monument to "a brutal war of imperialism"?
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/09/03/what-should-we-do-with-torontos-controversial-statues.html








Alonzo Ryan, Political Caricature in Canada, 1904









  


Boer War Memorial, Montreal, George W. Hill, 1907





General Laurier: Hey! Baptiste, this animal shouldn't be spiced up
Le taon, Montréal, 2 June 1908



 

 

 




R. T. Richards, Life, New York, 1 July 1909










Dreadnoughts, Puck, New York, L. M. Glackens, artist, 22 September 1909, LC2011647506
[Uncle Sam, William II, the German Emperor, Meiji, the Emperor of Japan, Armand Fallières, President of France, and Edward VII, King of Great Britain; the emperor of Japan.]



 

 

 



 



 


 
 







 
Chorus "Sail Sail oh my ship". [tr.]



 























Rt. Hon. Robert Borden and Hon. Winston Churchill leaving the Admiralty. LAC, C-002082, 1912







 








                       THE  GRAND  OLD  COMMANDER
"I am glad to tell him (the Premier) – that honorable gentleman on this side of the House, though differing from him on other matters, share his devotion and loyalty to the British Empire." – Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in the House of Commons yesterday.
Fergus Kyle, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 6 December 1912
 



 







 




Canadians must sail the Seas. LAC, Acc. No. 1985-40-6 Source: Gift, National Archives Library, Dawn Munroe, 1913-1918





The Canadian Courier, Toronto, 31 May 1913




The Canadian Courier, Toronto, 11 October 1913







 







 







 



 







 







 
 



 









A. G. Racey, Montreal Star, reprinted in Maclean's Magazine, 1 March 1914



   




Naval Service, LC-USZC4-12677, 1915







 
1915




The Listening Post, British Expeditionary Force, France, 25 November 1915




 




Collier's The National Weekly, NY,  l4 July 1917








 



Royal Flying Corps Tradesmen, Dublin Ireland, 1918, LAC 198-028 X PIC 02269




Skilled Mechanics Urgently Needed, Library and Archive Canada, Royal Flying Corps, United Kingdom, 1918, 1983-028 X PIC











 

 

 
The Royal Naval Want Men of Good Character and Physique. Volontaires de la Réserve de la Marine Royale Canadienne :  recruitment campaign. LAC, 1983-28-905, and LAC, Acc. No. 1983-28-793, 1914-1918 

 

 
Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve Overseas Division :  recruitment campaign. Volontaires de la Réserve de la Marine Royale Canadienne Division D'Outre-Mer. LAC, Acc. No. 1983-28-893, 1914-1918 
 

 
  
The Navy Wants Men : Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve recruitment campaign. LAC, Acc. No. 1983-28-839, 1914-1918 



































 




The Ubyssey, Vancouver, 12 November 1930







 















 



"Two big oceans and a polar ocean have kept us safe for centuries."
                                 Desmond Morton, address, Toronto, 17 April 2002




Unveiling ceremony of the Canadian War Memorial by Vernon March on Parliament Hill, City of Vancouver, 21 May 1939, AM54-S4-2--CVA 371-1975, 21 May 1939








The Navy's Here, Ross Parker and Hugh Charles, Toronto, 1939, The University of Western Ontario








Pilots of No.87 Squadron, R.A.F. running to their Hawker 'Hurricane' aircraft. LAC, PA-037482, ca. 1940







 
LAC e002712861



 
Metropolitan Toronto Public Library 1939-45 Aircraft Production item 3 1941



 







 



 




La Presse, Montréal, 3 July 1942








 







 
1943




Women's collection of Glenbow 1943



 







 











 
McLean's Magazine 1 November 1943




War Poster - Ce qu'il faut / Pour Vaincre. LAC, Acc. No. 1987-72-106 The Hubert Rogers Collection, Gift of Mrs. Helen Priest, Hubert Reginald  Rogers 1944?








 
1944




Shoulder to shoulder - Canadian Women's Army Corps. LAC, Acc. No. 1992-622-3, Shragge? 1944









Plot Your Future Course :  victory loan drive. LAC, Acc. No. 1983-30-684, 1944




LAC c-087430








Nova Scotia Archives V/F vol.333 no.34, 1945







Charles R. Knight, The Windsor Daily Star, 5 January 1945








Nov 1945, Metropolitan Toronto Public Library 




The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 19 March 1946


















1950 LAC Acc. No. R1300-308 



 





McGill Daily, Montreal, 4 December 1950




There's a Future for You in AVIATION Fly with the R.C.A.F. LAC, Acc. No. R1300-308



















 











Fifth British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Vancouver, 1954


 



 




A photograph of a drawing of a CF-105 AVRO Arrow. NFB of Canada LAC PA-111546, 1957





McGill Daily, Montreal, 13 January 1958















 






















College of New Caledonia, 1 March 1994