Over the past few years, it’s become clear that one of Vancouver’s newest art phenoms is also one of its most long-standing: the 82-year-old retired medical photographer and photographic flâneur Fred Herzog. Since the early 1950s, Herzog has framed the changing face of urban life. Ranging from the docks and laneways of Vancouver to the […]
Some very interesting photos from the collection of French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn.
Canada as a country was born on July 1st 1867 when five formerly independent provinces joined together into one nation. Canada was born not only out of a need for defense against aggressive America…
Hans Island is technically located in both Danish and Canadian waters.
Sporting a flowing mullet and uneasy smile, the vintage Wayne Gretzky hockey card is so rare it barely made it off the printing press. And despite the hockey legend’s best efforts to keep the 1981-82 season cards out of collectors' hands, some sticky fingers have made sure the image of that misguided mane lives on forever.
MacLean's magazine Illustrated by Oscar Cahén January 1952
Vintage travel poster of 1920 promoting Canadian Pacific Railway Poster. Caption: The Bureau of Canadian Information. Dept. of Colonization & Development. Montreal - London - New York - Chicago.
Windsor Star reporter Dalson Chen and photographer Nick Brancaccio were among hundreds of spectators gathered along the riverfront on Saturday morning for the unvei…
For day 67 I thought I would use coins minted in 1967. In 1967 Canada celebrated it's Centennial and commissioned Canadian wildlife artist Alex Colville to design the reverse of Canada's coinage for that year.
Canada has a long history of peacekeeping around the globe. It was Canadian Prime-Minister Lester Pearson who invented the idea (and won a Noble Peace Prize for it) and Canada was the first nation …
A look at the Canadian and Manitoban historical figure and founder, Louis Riel, and why he is such an interesting figure to study!
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald at 55, (1870). January 11, 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Alexander Macdonald. As the first Prime Minister of Canada and one of the F…
Miles Gilbert (Tim) Horton, hockey player, entrepreneur (born 12 January 1930 in Cochrane, ON; died 17 February 1974 in St. Catharines, ON).
Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographe...
CBC Annual Report 74-75 graphic. The forms are incredible but the blue is a bit too royal-blue for my tastes. With a more muted color scheme and a shift of the blues into the aqua realm this would …
Children and their grownups have been charmed for many years by sweetly bumbling Winnie-the-Pooh, along with his pals the anxious Piglet, doting Kanga and
