Across Canada by C.P.R.: Part two

More photographs of urban and rural settings across Canada by an unknown photographer. Taken between 1918 and 1935, these photographs use a gelatin dry plate process using silver salts and transparent ink on glass.










Wheat wagon at country elevator on the Prairies, about 1927

Street scene, Winnipeg, MB, 1919

Channel between Clear and Newboro Lakes, Rideau Lakes, ON, about 1933

Boats on Chemong Lake, near Peterborough, ON, about 1935

Copper converters, nickel industry, Sudbury ON about 1920

A commercial street in Hamilton, ON, about 1918

Street scene, London, ON, about 1923

Parliament buildings, Ottawa, ON, about 1923

Saint James Cathedral, Montreal, QC, about 1934

Basilica, Quebec City, QC, about 1920

Little Champlain Street, Quebec City, QC, about 1923

Rural scene, Ile d'Orléans, QC, about 1925

St. Louis Gate, Quebec City, QC, about 1930

Street scene, Ste. Anne de Beaupré, QC, about 1925

Scene at Gaspé, QC, about 1930








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