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Into the Silent Land

French and English versions of the catalogue for Into the Silent Land : Survey Photography in the Canadian West, 1858-1900, a travelling exhibition organized by the Public Archives of Canada [now Library and Archives Canada]. Catalogued is by A.J. Birrell of the National Photography Collection Catalogue includes introduction to exhibition, description of the processes by which the images were produced, explanations for sections of the exhibition along with a listing of associated images and sample images. Sections are: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploratory Expedition, 1858 : Humphrey Lloyd Hime; North American Boundary Commission, 1858-1862 : Corps of Royal Engineers; North American Boundary Commission, 1872-1875 : Corps of Royal Engineers; Geological Survey of Canada, 1871 : Benjamin Baltzly; Canadian Pacific Railway Surveys, 1871-1879 : Charles George Horetzky; Geological Survey of Canada, 1875-1900 : George Mercer Dawson and Joseph Burr Tyrrell; Dominion Lands Surveys and International Boundary Commission, 1886-1900 : Edouard Deville, James J. McArthur, William Ogilvie, Charles A. Bigger. The sample images included are: Encampment on the Red River showing Henry Youle Hind and others seated at a camp with an overturned canoe; a First Nations woman seated next to a tree; portrait of two members of the Kalispel First Nation; survey crew cutting a path through trees on the right bank of the Mooyie River; a camp for members of the Royal Engineers Survey Corps by North Antler River (includes carts and tents); waterfall/cascade on the Hammond [Garnet] River, B.C.; canoe being dragged onto shore to portage over a bluff for the Murchison's Rapids in the North Thompson River, B.C.; a seated group of Piegan people; totem poles and boats at a Skidegate [Skagit?] village on the Queen Charlotte Islands; survey party and carts in northern Manitoba; buildings for housing Chinese immigrants in Victoria; surveyors ascending a mountain in the Chilkat River district of Alaska.

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