Canada through American eyes · Château FrontenaC, CirCa 1930 This all-ice, 150-metre toboggan...
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92 toronto life September 2017 CHâTEAU FRONTENAC, CIRCA 1930 This all-ice, 150-metre toboggan slide stretches along Quebec City’s Dufferin Terrace to the Château Frontenac. NEW YORK, 1971 Tsleil-Waututh Nation actor Chief Dan George received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Little Big Man, a film satirizing the western genre. NIAGARA FALLS, 1951 Mayor Ernest Hawkins gives Princess Elizabeth a tour of Niagara Falls during her first royal visit to Canada, the year before she became Queen. PLAZA HOTEL, 1978 Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky attend a World Hockey Association meeting in New York. The photo was airbrushed and cropped to feature just Gretzky, who, despite being only 17 at the time, was beginning to eclipse Howe. 2 Canada through American eyes ART THE FARAWAY NEARBY Sept. 13 to Dec. 10, Ryerson Image Centre Last year, the Ryerson Image Centre got its hands on a gallerist’s dream: 25,000 images of Canada from the New York Times’ archives, donated by GTA real estate exec Chris Bratty. After a year of sifting and scrutinizing, the gallery is featuring 230 photos from the collection in a new exhibition, The Faraway Nearby. Here, some of our favourite shots from the show.
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92 toronto life September 2017
Château FrontenaC, CirCa 1930This all-ice, 150-metre toboggan slide stretches along Quebec City’s Dufferin Terrace to the Château Frontenac.
new York, 1971Tsleil-Waututh Nation actor Chief Dan George received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Little Big Man, a film satirizing the western genre.
niagara Falls, 1951Mayor Ernest Hawkins gives Princess Elizabeth a tour of Niagara Falls during her first royal visit to Canada, the year before she became Queen.
Plaza hotel, 1978Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky attend a World Hockey Association meeting in New York. The photo was airbrushed and cropped to feature just Gretzky, who, despite being only 17 at the time, was beginning to eclipse Howe.
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Canada through American eyes
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Sept. 13 to Dec. 10, Ryerson Image Centre
Last year, the Ryerson Image Centre got its hands on a gallerist’s dream: 25,000
images of Canada from the New York Times’ archives, donated by GTA real estate exec Chris Bratty. After a year of sifting
and scrutinizing, the gallery is featuring 230 photos from the collection in a new exhibition,
The Faraway Nearby. Here, some of our favourite shots
from the show.
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photographs courtesy of rudolph p. bratty family collection/ryerson image centre. howe and gretzky by william e. sauro; george by chester higgins
waterton lakes national Park, CirCa 1958In a photo likely destined for the Times’ travel section, RCMP Corporal W. W. MacLeod shows the Albertan landscape to wide-eyed Californian tourists.
Citadelle oF QuebeC, 1944Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and W. L. Mackenzie King speak to reporters after the second of two Quebec Conferences, high-level military summits that took place in Quebec City.
Montreal harbour, 1915After arriving from Winnipeg and Western Canada, men of the 28th and 31st battalions await transport in Montreal, just another stretch in their long journey to the war zone.
lake PlaCid, 1932The Canadian Olympic women’s speed skating team poses playfully at the Winter Games in 1932, the first year they were allowed to participate. The two women on the right were cropped out for publication.
