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| Bay of Fundy | |||
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Bay of Fundy Tides An 1860s photograph of low tide on the Bay
of Fundy. ID #10004 |
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| Hudson Bay | |||
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Henry Hudson The last voyage of Henry Hudson, 1611, the
English navigator who sailed into Hudson Bay and was cast adrift with a few loyal supporters by
his own mutinous sailors into the icy waters. ID #10105 |
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Northern Reaches of the Shield A 1899 photograph of Quebec's
subarctic coasts on Hudson Bay, with the rock-mass of the Precambrian region. ID #10013 |
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Snow-Dune A snow scene on Hudson Bay, Quebec Coast, with a
person perched on the top of the snow-dune. ID #10014 |
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| Ottawa River | |||
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Algonquin Encampment Algonquin Indian Encampment on the
Ottawa River. The Algonquins were mostly situated up the Ottawa and early became involved in
the French fur trade. Pastel by Alfred Worsley Holdstock (1820-1901). ID #20248 |
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Timber Raft Timber raft on the Ottawa River. From the 19th
century onward, huge rafts of square hewed timber were floated down the Ottawa and St.
Lawrence Rivers for export to Britain. ID #20243 |
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Lumber Rafts Lumber rafts at the junction of the St. Lawrence
and Ottawa rivers, early 1840s, one of a series of celebrated engravings by W.M. Bartlett,
published in Canadian Scenery, 1842. ID #10010 |
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Timber Rafts Early photo of floating timber down the Ottawa
River, Upper Canada. Timber rafts reached 1000 feet and needed thirty to forty men to manage
them. ID #20300 |
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Timber Raft An Ottawa timber raft with its crew on the Ottawa
River. ID #10227 |
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Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa, Ontario, in the 1860s, with the rocky
bluff in the foreground the future site of Canada's parliament buildings. ID #20404 |
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Ann Sisson The Ann Sisson, an early steamboat on the Ottawa
River, near Aylmer, Ontario, in the mid 19th century. ID #20392 |
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