Dominion Day!

Views of Canada for its 145th birthday!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

For more cross-country tours, see Oh, Canada and Oh, Canadian Cities (and here's some fireworks!). 

These photos mostly from the Musee McCord Museum, with a few from the collections of the IWM and LIFE. 

The beautiful Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta, 1946.  Source

Winston Churchill and his daughter at Niagara Falls., 1943. Source

Percé, Quebec, c. 1900. Source

Stacks of wheat near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, 1887. Source

Massawippi Falls and mill, Eastern Townships, Quebec, c. 1865. Source

Whitehorse, the Yukon, 1901. Source

Yonge Street, Toronto, c. 1890. Source

Saint John, New Brunswick, 1870. Source

Douglas fir trees in Vancouver, 1887. Source

A peaceful spot in Victoria Park, Truro, Nova Scotia, c. 1915. Source

A car at Cabot Tower on Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1908. Source

The CPR station in Winnipeg, 1884. Source

Chaudière Falls, Ottawa, ON, 1870. Source

Jackie Kennedy in a red outfit designed to evoke the Mountie uniform during a state visit to Canada, Ottawa, 1961. Source

A view from Chateau Lake Louise (see first pic) out towards the lake and glacier, Alberta, 1946. Source

A mill pond near Hunter River, PEI, c. 1915. Source

A suspension bridge in Niagara, Ontario, 1869. Source

The Bank of Montreal in Regina, 1884. Source

Dawson City and the Klondike River, Yukon, c. 1898. Source

Natives portaging goods at Slave River, the Northwest Territories, c. 1900. Source

Cutting grain on the Albertan prairie, c. 1920. Source

Kamloops, BC, 1887. Source

Lac Baker, near Edmundston, New Brunswick, c. 1916. Source

A Mountie gives a group of Wrens a tour of Quebec City during the Quebec Conference of 1943.  Source