Horse-drawn caboose
In rural regions of Canada, people showed ingenuity by building vehicles adapted to our winters. The Regier family of...
Child’s snowshoes
Snowshoes have been essential footwear in the Canadian winter for many centuries. This is an example of the common “beaver...
The Igloolik bear
This small ivory sculpture of a bear was carved during the Middle Dorset Period, between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. The exquisite...
Rooftop Concert!
Concert on the roof of Nain church, Nain, Labrador, 1923
La Chasse-galerie
This masterpiece by Léo Arbour was carved from a single block of wood in 1990. It tells the legend of The Bewitched Canoe (La...
Merry Christmas!
Goalie Harry Lumley (# 1) and left-winger Sid Smith (#8) appear in this holiday photo from 1954. Lumley and Smith were Leafs...
First courier of New France
On December 23, 1705, Pierre da Silva, known as “The Portuguese,” became the first officially commissioned Courier of New...
Mont-Albert
K.G. Chipman, J.L. Rathbun & Alvin Barter at Mont-Albert, Québec, 1922
Stained-glass window featuring the Nativity
Created by artist Yvonne Williams in 1942, this work was reproduced in a series of Christmas stamps issued in 1976. The series...
The Making of Medieval Europe – Power and Splendour
Spanning the years AD 400 to 1500, from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages in Europe was a...
Halifax N.S. from Citadel
Stereoscopic photograph ”Halifax N.S. from Citadel, Looking East” [186?-187?]
The Forster doll house
Measuring 135 cm high and 104 cm wide, the Forster doll house contains more than 900 objects. It was built in 1921 as a way of...
Victoria Memorial Museum Building
View of the west side of the Victoria Memorial Museum Building in Ottawa, Ontario, 1929
Contempra Telephone
The Contempra telephone was marketed 50 years ago in 1968. The first telephone to be developed and manufactured in Canada, it...
Two men playing checkers
Full length portrait of two men playing checkers, photographed by Arnprior Art Studio, Arnprior, Ontario, [after 1880]
Prisoner’s box
This wooden box was made by a prisoner incarcerated during the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada and held in the Toronto Gaol. While...
William Notman: Witness and Photographer of the Victorian era
Why in 2018 should we be interested in William Notman? Perhaps because his success bears such powerful witness to interesting...
Parliament Building
Parliament Building of British Columbia in Victoria [19-]
Flute
Music plays an important role in the social and ceremonial life of First Peoples. Flutes are associated primarily with ceremonial...
Armistice Day
World War I veterans marching in a street on day of armistice, Ottawa, Ontario, November 11, 1918