Additional Images

Provenance:

Collection of Robert Band, Toronto, ON;
Private Collection, Toronto, ON

Note:

This album is an important document with extensive annotations and narration, much of which recording the names of both Indigenous and Euro-American subjects. This large and image-dense album includes photos of various trips through Quebec, Ontario, the Northwest Territories, Alberta, the Maritimes, and Vermont. Photographs of Hudson’s Bay company outposts, the Indigenous peoples of the area, engineering projects, sport fishing trips, local scenery and events are all featured. This is an important document with extensive annotations and narration, much of which recording the names of both Indigenous and Euro-American subjects.

The narrative laid out in this album features:

• the Hudson’s Bay Company outpost at Lac Seul in Northwestern Ontario throughout the seasons
• prospectors and Indigenous peoples at Treaty grounds for trading
• a group of cinematic filmmakers shooting a dog team
• named outpost managers and employees, local families and Indigenous subjects
• a baptism ceremony held among Keewatin Ojibwa in Lac Seul
• various Hudson’s Bay Company outposts at Bucke, 2 miles from Sioux lookout, Osnabrugh, and Oskelaneo River in north-western Ontario
• Hudson’s Bay Company outposts in Senneterre, Quebec
• photos of the Dixville, Ontario flood of October 1927 including flooded roads and damage to mills along the river, log driving and damming
• local life on St. Maurice River in Quebec near the Laurentide Company pulp mill
• a logging camp at Lac Claire in summer and winter
• Ontario-made equipment and its operators at the camp
• a forest fire started by a cigarette
• travel to Gaspé region to fish
• interior and exterior views of Southern Canada Power Company dam and powerplant in Drummondville, Quebec
• the rapids and aqueduct between LaTuque and St. Maurice