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A 20th century aerial view of Quebec City.
St. Teresa of Avila Cathedral, Amos, Quebec.
Horse and sulky in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec.
A display of crutches at the Sainte-Anne de Beaupré Basilica.
First steam locomotive.
Skidoo leather post card.
The late Dr. Herb McRea, dentist, and Susie Lebron of Hatley, Quebec. August 19, 1910.
Anchor.
Calgary.
Christmas wishes.
Christmas wishes.
Dominion Square, Montreal.
Greeting from Canada.
Guelph, Ontario.
This card was sent to “the folks back home in Nebraska” from a family that had moved to central Alberta in March, 1910.
Hotel Piazza.
Hotel QuAppelle, Regina.
Huronic.
Hurrah for Canada.
Lacrosse.
Macoroni Towers.
Manitoba Parliament.
Monkey Mountain.
Pitt Street, Cornwall, Ontario before the great fire.
Portage Avenue, Winnipeg.
Charlottetown, PEI.
Quebec
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.
Slocan Lake, BC.
Stanfield's.
Sunshine/Shadow.
In 1909 the swastika was still a happy, positive symbol, as this post card shows.
TOM.
Valentine.
Parliament buildings in Ottawa.
Ladies hockey.
Weaving of the yarn in Quebec, Canada.
Victoria Jubilee Bridge, Montreal, Quebec, on December 6, 1905.
Valcartier Base on wash day. The base was constructed at the beginning of the First World War.
Main street of department stores — St. Catherine Street West, Montreal, Quebec.
St. Anne du Bocage, cemetery of the first settlers in Caraquet.
St. Anne Beaupré, Quebec, probably at the beginning of the 1930s.
General view from Collection du collège, November 13, 1907, New Brunswick.
View of the Pulp Mill, Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Montreal Pharmacy, built in the early 1930s, was designed by Quebec architect Raoul Gariépy. It was the first pharmacy in Canada to offer a franchise, one of which was sold to Jean Coutu — the drugstore chain we know of today.
Noranda, Quebec, site of copper and gold mines.
Montreal lit at night, around 1952.
The Ice Palace, posted in 1904.
The Seville Theatre circa 1910 | Montreal in the era of trams.
Dolbeau Mill, Lac St. Jean, Quebec.
Kresge on Main Street, July 31, 1962, in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.
This Sacred Heart monument is located in Roberval / Lac St. Jean, Quebec. The inscription "1918" suggests that it is probably a monument of the First World War.
The building that was home to La Presse in the early 1920s. Notice their slogan and the number of readers at that time.
The convent in Caraquet, New Brunswick.
The Royal Museum and Hotel Columbus on Main Street, St. Anne de Beaupré, Quebec.

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