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| Sir John A. MacDonald From: Library and Archives Canada |
I have had the pleasure of working two contract roles at Library and Archives Canada. My first contract was in 2008. That contract involved textual documents/correspondences from and to Sir John A. MacDonald. Many of the letters were regarding our National policy and the building of the Grand Trunk Railway.
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| William Topley From: Topley Collection Library and Archives Canada |
My second contract and the one I am currently doing is the called the "Portrait Project". The Archives have taken on the Portrait Gallery of Canada project of digitizing over 100,000 images. Within this portrait gallery I have handled and seen so much of Canada's past! I started the project with glass plates. Glass was the support material used for photographs in the late 1800's. One of the most prominent photographers of this medium William Topley, who began Topley studios in the nation's capital. He photographed many pictures of political leaders and prominent Canadian families. The glass plate fond that I got to handle and digitize was that of an aged Queen Victoria.
The most exciting image I got to digitize was a small collection of the original first-ever hockey and lacrosse trading cards from 1910.
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| Winston Churchill From: Karsh Collection Library and Archives Canada |
To see some of the work the Digitization team has done please check out the collection at the Library and Archives website. There is all sorts of images from Topley's glass plate fonds to Yosef Karsh to Arnaud Maggs. Canada's artists are masters at their trades in that they capture our heritage so magnificently.
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