Canadian Collection (page 17)

Toronto from the lake, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Emerald Lake near Field, British Columbia, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Bridge over the Columbia River, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Consolation Lake, Alberta, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Gatineau Valley, Wakefield, Quebec, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Matheson Lang, Canadian actor-manager and dramatist, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Matheson Lang, Canadian actor-manager and dramatist, 1926. Portrait of Lang (1879-1948) who became famous in Britain as a stage and film actor

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, statesman and newspaper proprietor, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, (1879-1964), British/Canadian statesman and newspaper proprietor, 1926. Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Canadian ice hockey team, Winter Olympic Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1936. Canada finished as silver medallists, runners-up to Great Britain

Diana Gordon Lennox, Canadian skier, Winter Olympic Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1936. Diana Gordon Lennox of Canada took part in the slalom

Franklin McLeay, Canadian actor, 1901. Artist: W&D Downey
Franklin McLeay, Canadian actor, 1901

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, c1890. Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, c1890. Born in Glasgow, Macdonald (1815-1891) emigrated to Canada with his family in 1820

Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada, c1890. Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada, c1890. The leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, Mackenzie (1822-1892)

The Opposition, 1912. Artist: Strickland
The Opposition, 1912. Caricature of Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. Illustration from Men of the Day No 1316, supplement to Vanity Fair

Riots in Montreal, Canada, 1849, (1900). The burning of the House of Assembly. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria by Robert Wilson, (1900)

Douglass Montgomery, Canadian actor, 1934-1935. Montgomery began his acting career in Hollywood in the 1930s before moving to Britain in the 1940s. Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave

Canadian cavalry, Vimy, France, First World War, April 1917

Canadian troops in no mans land, Vimy, France, First World War, 9 April 1917

Henry Alexander MacRae, Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter, 1933. MacRae (1876-1944) worked on many film serials for Universal Studios

Douglas Shearer, Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and director, 1933. The brother of the Hollywood film star Norma Shearer

Marie Dressler, Canadian actress, 1933. After a theatre and vaudeville career Dressler (1868-1934) became one of Hollywoods top stars, despite being in her sixties

Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress, 1933. Shearer (1902-1983) was an Academy Award-winning actress in Hollywood and one of the major female stars of the 1930s

Men of Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, 1915. The Princess Patricias Regiment was established in August 1914. Their name comes from Princess Patricia of Connaught

Officers of the Canadian Highlanders, 1915. 619, 636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I

A French Canadian army recruitment poster, 1914. 619, 636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I

A group of Canadian soldiers, 1914, (1926). 619, 636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I

Allied troops marching through a liberated town, 27 October 1918

General Currie and Canadian troops walking through a liberated town, 27 October 1918. Currie (1875-1933) commanded the Canadian Corps of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

King George V and the Canadian General Currie view the captured ground at Vimy and Messines, 1917. The Battles of Vimy Ridge and Messines were notable Allied successes in 1917

Sir Arthur William Currie, Canadian First World War general, (1926). Currie (1875-1933) commanded the Canadian Corps of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from June 1917 until the end of the war

The 5th Royal Scots of Canada, Montreal, c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
The 5th Royal Scots of Canada, Montreal, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

The 2nd Queens Own Rifles (Canada), c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
The 2nd Queens Own Rifles (Canada), c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

The 6th Regiment of Cavalry (Hussars, Canada), c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
The 6th Regiment of Cavalry (Hussars, Canada), c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

Halifax Garrison Artillery, c1890. Artist: H Bunnett
Halifax Garrison Artillery, c1890. A coloured lithographic plate from Her Majestys Army, Indian and Colonial Forces by Walter Richards, JS Virtue & Company, (London, c1890)

Lieutenant-Colonel WD Otter, commanding Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, South Africa, 1902. Artist: Gray
Lieutenant-Colonel William Dillon Otter, commanding Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, South Africa, 1902. In 1908 Otter (1843-1929) became the first Canadian-born soldier to command Canadas army

Lieutenant-Colonel Francois-Louis Lessard, Canadian Mounted Infantry, South Africa, 1902. Artist: Gray
Lieutenant-Colonel Francois-Louis Lessard, Canadian Mounted Infantry, South Africa, 1902. Portrait from Celebrities of the Army, published by George Newnes, (London, 1902)

Raymond Hart Massey, (1896-1983), Canadian actor, 20th century

George Brown, Scottish-born Canadian journalist and politician, 19th century. The founder and editor of the Toronto Globe

Louis-Joseph Papineau, (1786-1871), Canadian politician and lawyer, 19th century
Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian politician and lawyer, 19th century. Papineau (1786-1871) was the leader of the reformist movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837-1838

Seal hunting, Newfoundland, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 15th June 1902

The Canadian pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Paris, 1900. The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

Norma Shearer, Canadian born American actress, 1934-1935. Shearer was dubbed the First Lady of the Screen. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar on six occasions

Fay Wray, Canadian-born American film actress, 1934-1935. Fay Wray (1907-2004) is best remembered for her performance in the original King Kong (1933)

The Prince of Wales at the Ontario Agricultural College, Canada, 1919. The future King Edward VIII on a royal visit. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Jacques Cartier takes possession of the Bay of Gaspe, Canada, 1534 (1900). Artist: L Geisleh
Jacques Cartier takes possession of the Bay of Gaspe, Canada, 1534 (1900). Jacques Cartier was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St Lawrence

Charles Herbert Best, Canadian physiologist, 1960. Bell (1899-1978) with an assistant (left) in the laboratory. Bell assisted Frederick Banting to isolate insulin (1921)

Large Knife from grave at Southampton Island, for cutting whale-blubber, Inuit

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