Societies & Territories

Lower Canada around 1820

Lower Canada 1820 Image Bank

General James Murray, 1783
Costume of Domiciliated Indians of America (1814)
House of John Molson
Natives traveling the Kaministikwia River 1860
Evolution of the population
Butting square timber
Taylors Brewery
Guy Carleton
William Price
Montréal in 1832
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The Loyalists draw lots for their land
A nun from the Grey Nuns
Rideau Canal in Bytown, Upper Canada
Lower town market, McCallum dock, 1829
Upper town of Ottawa in 1855
Bonsecours church in Montréal, 1841
A priest
Port and St. Lawrence River, Montreal, 1841
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
Presbyterian church in St. Gabriel (protestant)
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Irish leaving Britain
The Loyalists en route to Upper Canada
John Molson
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Julie Papineau
Encampment of the Loyalists in Ontario, 1784
A loyalist refugee camp
Augustin Cuvillier
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An Indian Parley, 1800-50, copied about 1910
Two people sitting at table 1820
Place d'Armes in Québec, 1832
Lower Town of Quebec, 1833
Log cabin on the St. Maurice
Canadiens from upper territories near Montreal
William Workman at Place Jacques-Cartier 1840
The Lachine Canal in 1850
Entrance to the Lachine Canal 1826
The Seminary’s farm on the banks of the Lachine Canal circa 1855
Election and struggles for responsible government
George Brown addressing crowd during election 1848
The Quebec Gazette 1764
Photograph of Louis-Joseph Papineau
Prom Dress, August 1824
The Parliament of Montreal in1845
Caricature : The Quebec Railway Policy
Thomas Garceau, worker on the Lachine Canal
A raft down the Ottawa River
St-Antoine street in Montréal, 1851
Winter in Montréal. Stores in Place Jacques-Cartier
Protestant church in 1820
Launch of the «Royal William» at Québec, 1831
From the upper windows. Montreal, 1838
Coureur des bois and farmer © Bernard Duchesne, Village Prologue
The family of David Hurtubise
Military parade in honour of new British king
Wood depot near Quebec City 1848
Interior of house
Some Lower Canada governors of the period
Arrow sash
Mr. Bell’s forge, on the Saint-Maurice River
Marie Bolduc. A seamstress in 1820: work by hand
Skating in 1820
A dance
Returning from fishing
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The blacksmith
Inside a living room in Beauharnois 1833
Presbytery of St. Gregory
Nelson monument at the Place du marché, Montréal, 20 juillet 1829
Montreal - View of Mont-Royal in 1851
Citadel of Montreal 1817
Trading furs
Wood bridge at Saint Thomas
The towers of the old fort of the Sulpicians in 2002
The Lachine canal today
Manufacture of potash
Une ronde (a kind of dance)
Steamboat in Port of Montreal 1850
La chasse galerie
Catholic stone church 1820
Anglican church, Chambly, 1820
Charles Gregory ready to go chop wood
Woodcutting in winter
Montreal from l'île Sainte-Hélène, 1830
A carriage
Getting around in winter in Montréal
View of Port of Montreal
Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada,
The Canadas 1820
Province of Québec after the Royal Proclamation, 1763
Province of Québec after the Québec Act, 1774
Upper Canada and Lower Canada after Constitutional Act, 1791
A colony with a parliament
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Export of squared pine 1812-1842
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How a bill passes through government
Canoe, sailboat and steamboat
Engraving of the Theatre Royal, 1850
View of the Champs-de-Mars, 1830
Inside the church of Notre-Dame, Montreal, 1860
Bedford Basin near Halifax (Nova Scotia)
Loyalists arrive map
TimberGraphic by RECITUS
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Shoes Eaton Canada about 1885
Le moulin à farine de Portneuf, Canada
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Sawmill, Hawksbury, ON, 1865
A young Canadian worker
Tanneries Village, St. Henry, near Montreal,
View of Montreal 1852
D. McEwen & Son, Machine Engine and Boiler Works,
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Bostonians paying the excise man or tarring feathering
1791 Upper and Lower Canada after The Constitutional Act

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