Finding Aid
Collection of prints pertaining to Canada from a variety of nineteenth-century journals. Subjects include the railway, visits of the royal family, sports, ship building, the search for Franklin, Niagara Falls, and communities and cities.
"Winter Costumes of British Troops in Canada", The Illustrated London News, 17 February 1849.
"Opening of the Canada Great Western Railway" and "Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway: Opening Ceremonies at Goderich, Canada West", The Illustrated London News, 21 January 1854.
"The Great Western Railway of Canada", The Illustrated London News, 8 April 1854.
"Submarine Electric Telegraph between Newfoundland and Cape Breton", The Illustrated London News, 20 October 1855.
"The `Great Eastern' Steam-Ship Building on the Stocks, Millwall, 22,500 Tons Burden (from a photograph in the possession of Mr. Scott Russell)", The Illustrated London News, 30 May 1857.
"The Coiling of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board H.M.S. `Agamemnon'", The Illustrated London News (?), 1 August 1857.
"Bow of the `Leviathan' (`Great Eastern' Eastern Steam-Ship during the Time of Building", The Illustrated London News, 7 November 1857.
"The Great Eastern on the Stocks", The Illustrated London News, 7 November 1857. Coloured.
"The Hon. John Alexander Macdonald, Premier of Canada" and "The Atlantic Telegraph Paying-Out Machine", The Illustrated London News, 3 July 1858.
"Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable", The Illustrated London News, 31 July 1858. 2 copies.
"Lumbering in New Brunswick. -- Lumbermen at Work in the Forest", The Illustrated London News, 28 August 1858.
"Lumbering in New Brunswick. -- Lumberman's Camp-House" and "Driving Logs Down the Falls of the St. John", The Illustrated London News, 28 August 1858. Partially coloured.
"The `Great Eastern' Steam-Ship as She Will Appear at Sea", The Illustrated London News, 4 December 1858.
"Moose-Hunting in Canada", The Illustrated London News, 18 December 1858.
"A Sketch on the Deck of the `Great Eastern' during the Late Public Inspection", The Illustrated London News, 1 January 1859.
"Montreal Market: Habitans Purchasing Cloth" and "Breaking up of the Ice at Montreal", The Illustrated London News, 19 March 1859.
"Sawing and Ploughing the Ice on the St. Lawrence" and "The Icehouse, Nuns' Island, Montreal", The Illustrated London News, 16 April 1859. 2 copies.
"The Patent Boom Derrick Placing the Intermediate Paddle Shaft on the Deck of the `Great Eastern'", The Illustrated London News, 26 February 1859.
"The `Great Eastern' Steamship Ready at Sea", Harper's Weekly, 10 September 1859.
"The Saloon of the Steamship `Great Eastern'", Harper's Weekly, 17 September 1859.
"Repairing the Accident on the `great Eastern'", The Illustrated London News, 1 October 1859.
"The North Atlantic Telegraph", The Illustrated London News, 7 July 1860.
E. Hall (from a sketch taken on the Jersey side by), "The Arrival of the `Great Eastern' at New York", The Illustrated London News, 21 July 1860.
Captain Williams (from a drawing), "The Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada. -- The Citadel of Quebec, from Prescott Gate", The Illustrated London News, 4 August 1860. 2 copies.
G.H. Andrews, "The Falls of Niagara" The Illustrated London News, 25 August 1860. Coloured.
Major Williams (from a drawing by), "View from the King's Bastion Quebec: The Isle of Orleans in the Distance", The Illustrated London News, 25 August 1860. 2 copies.
G.H. Andrews, "The Progress of the Prince of Wales in British North America", The Illustrated London News, 1 September 1860. 3 copies.
"The `George Stephenson' Locomotive Engine Built at Hamilton, Canada West, for the Great Western Railway of Canada", The Illustrated London News, 1 September 1860. 2 copies.
G.H. Andrews (from a drawing by), "The Prince of Wales Landing at St. John, New Brunswick", The Illustrated London News, 15 September 1860.
G.H. Andrews, "The Prince of Wales Landing at Quebec", The Illustrated London News, 29 September 1860. Two copies, one coloured.
G.H. Andrews, "Reception of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by the Inhabitants of Toronto, Canada West", The Illustrated London News, 27 October 1860.
"Visit of the Prince of Wales to America -- His Royal Highness at Hamilton, Canada West", The Illustrated London News, 17 November 1860.
"Regatta in Halifax, Nova Scotia. -- Sailing Match for the Prince of Wales' Cup: The Winning Yacht Wave Crossing the Bows of the St. George", The Illustrated London News, 31 August 1861.
G.H. Andrews (from a sketch by), "The Falls of the Chaudiere, near Quebec", The Illustrated London News, 4 January 1862.
G.H. Andrews (from a sketch by), "The Natural Steps on the River Montmorency near Quebec", The Illustrated London News, 11 January 1862.
R.P. Leitch, "St. Andrews Harbour and Bay, New Brunswick", The Illustrated London News, 1 February 1862.
G.H. Andrews (from a drawing by), "The Falls of Montmorency near Quebec", The Illustrated London News, 15 March 1862.
"The Victoria Skating-Rink, Montreal" and "Celebration of the Royal Wedding Day on the Ice of Burlington Bay, Lake Ontario, Canada West", The Illustrated London News, 18 April 1862.
G.H. Andrews, "The Canadian Lumber Trade: Clearing a Jam", The Illustrated London News, 3 January 1863. 2 copies.
"Caribou-Hunting in New Brunswick `In at the Death'", The Illustrated London News, 24 January 1863. 2 copies.
G.H. Andrews (from a sketch by), "Canadian Lumber Trade: A Raft on the St. Lawrence", The Illustrated London News, 7 February 1863.
G.H. Andrews (from a sketch by), "The Canadian Lumber Trade: Timber Coves at Quebec", The Illustrated London News, 28 February 1863.
"Timber-Booms on the St. John River, New Brunswick", Harper's Weekly, 5 May 1866.
"Wire Suspension-Bridge over the Fraser River, British Columbia" and "Town of Yale, British Columbia", The Illustrated London News, 12 May 1866.
"The Prince of Wales Visiting the Great Eastern Steam-Ship to Inspect the Atlantic Telegraph Cable", The Illustrated London News, 3 June 1865.
"The Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Landing the Shore End of the Cable from the Caroline at Foilhommerum, Valencia", The Illustrated London News, 5 August 1865.
"The Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel Addressing the Bystanders ...", The Illustrated London News, 5 August 1865.
"The Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Watching the Caroline Going out to Sea with the Shore End of the Cable", The Illustrated London News, 5 August 1865.
"The Great Eastern off Brighton on her Return Home", The Illustrated London News, 2 September 1865.
"Preparing for the Final Attempt to Grapple the Lost Cable", The Illustrated London News, 2 September 1865.
"The Breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board the `Great Eastern,' August 2, 1865", Harper's Weekly, 23 September 1865.
"Testing the Recovered Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1865", The Illustrated London News, 13 October 1866.
"The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition", The Illustrated London News, 8 September 1888.
"Laying the Shore End of the Cable from the Great Eastern, in Heart's Content Bay, Newfoundland", The Illustrated London News, 8 September 1866. Coloured
"The Great Eastern under Repairs on the Cheshire Shore of the Mersey", The Illustrated London News, 16 February 1867.
"Canoe with Mails and Passengers Crossing the St. Lawrence at Quebec, in Winter", The Canadian Illustrated News, 12 February 1870. 2 copies.
"Provincial Rifle Match, Montreal. -- The Battalion Match for the Dominion Provincial Cup", Canadian Illustrated News, 20 August 1870.
"The Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston" and "Albert College, Belleville", Canadian Illustrated News, 31 December 1870.
"The Ontario Wimbledon Team of Riflemen", Canadian Illustrated News, 29 July 1871.
E.J. Russell (from a sketch by), "Camp Ross, Fredericton, N.B.", Canadian Illustrated News, 12 August 1871.
"Rifle Practice at Goderich Camp, -- Goderich and Maitland in the Distance", Canadian Illustrated News, 19 August 1871.
"The Manitoba Indian Treaty. -- Conference with the Chiefs", Canadian Illustrated News, 9 September 1871.
"Les chutes Kakabeka, sur la rivière Kaministiquia (d'après un dessin de W. Armstrong)", L'opinion publique, 12 October 1871.
"Toronto. -- The New Wesleyan Methodist Church", Canadian Illustrated News, 20 April 1872.
E.J. Russell (from a sketch by), "Opening of the Academy of Music, St. John, N.B.", Canadian Illustrated News, 1 June 1872.
"Hamilton. -- Procession of Nine-Hour Movement Men", Canadian Illustrated News, 8 June 1872.
"Toronto. -- Interior View of Lash & Co.'s Jewellery Store", Canadian Illustrated News, 22 June 1872.
Bohuslav Kroupa, "The Cheap Excursion `One Fare There and Back'", Canadian Illustrated News, 6 July 1872.
William Armstrong (from a drawing by), "H. E. the Governor General's New Yacht Imogene", Canadian Illustrated News, 23 November 1872.
B. Kroupa, "Little Hope of Light" and "Port Matoon", Canadian Illustrated News, 14 December 1872.
E. Jump, "Montreal. -- The Snow-Shoe Tramp by Torchlight -- on the Mountain", Canadian Illustrated News, 1 February 1873.
F.M. Bell Smith (from a sketch by), "Toronto. -- The Masonic Conversazione of the 20th Ult.", Canadian Illustrated News, 15 March 1873.
J. Pranishnikoff, "Quebec Sketches", Canadian Illustrated News, 15 March 1873.
E. Jump (from a sketch by), "The Session. No. II. -- Arrival of H. E. The Governor-General at the Parliament Building", Canadian Illustrated News, 22 March 1873.
E. Jump (from a sketch by), "The Session. No. VII -- The Drawing Room in the Senate Chamber on the 12th Inst.", Canadian Illustrated News, 29 March 1873.
C. Kendrick, "The Ice Harvest -- Hauling the Blocks", Canadian Illustrated News, 5 April 1873.
"The Governor-General's Visit to the Maritime Provinces -- The River of St. John and River Du Loup Railway", Canadian Illustrated News, 27 September 1873.
W.H. Overend, "Arctic Life: Cutting a way out of the Ice from Winter Quarters", The Illustrated London News, 29 May 1875.
W.J. Palmer, "Arctic Life: Preparing to Start on a Sledge Journey", The Illustrated London News, 29 May 1875.
"The Arctic Expedition", The Illustrated London News, 5 June 1875.
"News from the Arctic Expedition -- from Sketches by an Officer of the Valorous", The Illustrated London News, 11 September 1875.
"The Arctic Expedition. -- Shooting Walrus with the Harpoon Gun", The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 2 October 1865.
"The Game of La Crosse, as Played in Canada", The Illustrated London News, 16 October 1875.
W.F.G. Canning, "Peterboro, Ont: -- Part of the Town", and John Stephens (from a photograph by), "Allandale, Ont: -- The Great Western Railway Station", Canadian Illustrated News, 6 November 1875. Partially coloured.
"The Great Storm at Oakville, Ont.", Canadian Illustrated News, 15 April 1876. Partially coloured.
"The Passenger Railroad in the Centennial Exhibition Grounds" and "Dundas: -- The Late Freshet on the `Dundas Creek;' Scene of the Accident", Canadian Illustrated News, 3 June 1876.
W. Waller, "Trading in British America -- Arrival of a Dog-Sleigh at Winnipeg Manitoba", The Graphic, 19 August 1876.
J.W. Boyce (from a photograph by), "Belleville, Ont. -- Marchmont House", and W. Cruickshank, "Toronto: -- Annual Matches of the Ontario Rifle Association", Canadian Illustrated News, 23 September 1876.
Jas. MacKay (from sketches by), "Cayuga, Ont.", Canadian Illustrated News, 23 September 1876.
"The North Pole Expedition: The Western Sledge Party about to Start", The Illustrated London News, 4 November 1876.
"Our Artist in the United States -- VII. At the Falls of Niagara", The Graphic, 25 November 1876.
Paul Meyerheim, "A Wild Indian Show", Illustrated London News, 25 November 1876.
"The Cruise of the Pandora, Captain Allen Young", The Illustrated London News, 25 November 1876.
E.W. Sewell (from a sketch by), "The Winter Steamer Northern Light", Canadian Illustrated News, 2 December 1876.
"The Terra Nova Snow Shoe Club of Montreal", The Graphic, 23 December 1876. 2 copies.
"The Pandora Arctic Expedition: Walrus-Shooting", The Illustrated London News, 27 January 1877. 2 copies.
"The Rapids Below Niagara Fall -- the Sublime and the Ridiculous", The Graphic, 8 December 1877. Coloured.
H. Harrol, "The Falls of Niagara from the Canadian Shore", The Graphic, 28 December 1878. Coloured.
I.P. Pranishnikoff, "Sleighing in Quebec", Harper's Weekly, 18 January 1879.
M. Prior, "The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne (Princess Louise) at Niagara Falls, Canada", The Illustrated London News, 15 February 1879.
"Canadian Sketches -- The Dominion Force: A Battery of Artillery on the March", The Graphic, 8 March 1879.
"Return from Midnight Mass in Manitoba", Canadian Illustrated News, 25 December 1880.
H.W. Klutschak, "The American Franklin Search Expedition", The Illustrated London News, 15 January 1881. 2 copies.
Sidney P. Hall, "Moose Hunting in Canada", The Graphic, 22 January 1881. Coloured.
"Sketches in the North-West. -- A Snowball Fight between Indian Boys on the Red River" and "The Steamer Northern Light Caught in the Ice", Canadian Illustrated News, 26 February 1881.
H.W. Klutschak (from sketches by), "The American Franklin Search Expedition", The Illustrated London News, 26 February 1881.
"Winnipeg, the Capital of Manitoba, in the Canadian Dominion", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1881.
W.H. Overend, "Shooting Musk Oxen in the Arctic Region", The Graphic, 25 June 1881.
Sidney P. Hall, "To the Great North-West with the Marquis of Lorne, XII. Nearing the Last Portage on Clear Water Lake, July 28", The Graphic, 10 December 1881.
Arthur Hopkins, "Winter Life in Canada -- A Skating Carnival at Ottawa", The Graphic, 25 February 1882.
"The Jeanette Expedition", The Illustrated London News, 13 May 1882. 2 copies.
"From the Mersey to Ontario", The Illustrated London News, 22 September 1883.
"Canada Illustrated -- Canadian Pastimes", The Graphic, 16 August 1884.
"With the British Association in Canada -- Views on the Canadian Pacific Railway", The Graphic, 8 November 1884.
H. De H. Haig, "The Rebellion in the North-West Territory of Canada: Colonial Troops Marching over the Ice of Nepigon [Nipigon] Bay, Lake Superior", The Illustrated London News, 23 May 1885.
Melton Prior, "The Denison Gold-Mines, near Algoma, Lake Huron, Upper Canada", The Illustrated London News, 3 November 1888.
Melton Prior, "The Canadian Pacific Railway", The Illustrated London News, 8 December 1888.
"Field Artillery in Winter", The Graphic, 26 January 1889.
William Notman & Son (from a photograph by), "Mount Sir Donald Station and Hotel at the Great Glacier of the Selkirks, British Columbia, on the Canadian Pacific Railway", Harper's Weekly, 3 August 1889.
"Salmon-Fishing in North America", The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1890.
P. Naumanns, "Off for a Run on the Restigouche" and " Salmon-Fishing in North America", The Illustrated London News, 6 September 1890.
"The Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition: Arctic Village, `Elmwood,' the Most Northerly British Settlement in the World", The Illustrated London News, 2 November 1895.
Julius M. Price, "The Klondike Gold Discoveries: An Alaskan Fish Market", The Illustrated London News, 21 August 1897.
Edward Roper, "On the Way to the Klondike: Fort Wrangel at the Mouth of the Stikine River", The Illustrated London News, 9 April 1898.
