Off to explore Montreal this weekend, including a visit to the McCord Museum.
Sébastien Hudon, the Artistic Director of La Bandé Video (who’s offices are located downstairs within the Méduse complex) told me about the museum and its extensive online archive of over 80,000 photographs, which he uses regularly and which are available for the public to access through their website. Link below… Sébastien specifically recommended the images of the Paisley born Scots-Canadian William Notman.
Above image: Shawinigan Dam, 1917 by Wm. Notman & Son
Raising centre span, Quebec Bridge, Quebec City, QC, 1917 Wm. Notman & Son
Inuit children aboard S. S. "Bayeskimo", Baffin Land, NU, 1923 Frederick W. Berchem
Dominion Bank, corner Bleury and St. Catherine Streets, Montreal, QC, about 1915, Anonymous
Polar bear hunt, bear being towed, Baffin Bay, NU, 1924 Frederick W. Berchem
All images are copyright McCord Museum
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collections/photography/
