Newfoundland

Date: [Between 1907 and 1910]

Reference: PA1-o-093

Description: Photograph album of Canadian scenes. Most of the images are linked with the agricultural college "Macdonald College", part of McGill University. Images show the university buildings, including classrooms and student accomodation; agricultural scenes including dairying, tapping for maple syrup, culture of plants in greenhouses; and scenes of student life, including theatre and sports (many scenes of ice hockey, and one image of an ice yacht). There is also a section on Newfoundland, with life on land, ships and fishing, and reindeer herding. Album includes two loose images from a later date, of two men who had been among the first students at Macdonald College meeting outside the gates of the college circa 1960. The two students are named as C M Spencer, and W H Brittain (Vice-Principal of Macdonald College from 1934-1955). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black imitation skin cover, 24 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Canadian High Commission

Date: Between 1917 and 1924

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-176

Description: Album with images of New Zealanders travelling to Europe on transport ships during World War I, including storms at sea; ship-board sports; the coaling station at Cristobels, Colon, Panama; the Panama Canal. Later views show members of the Star Boating Club in Wellington. Photographs taken by Arthur Whitaker. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover entitled `Photographs'; 16 x 21 cm