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	Volunteer regiment of Elora, Ontario, May 1862. By 1870, the active militia numbered over 30 000 to defend against threats from the United States. © Public Domain Credit: Courtesy of the Ontario Archives
	The Charlottetown Conference, 1864 © Public Domain Credit: G. P. Roberts/National Archives of Canada, C-000733
	The Fathers of Confederation at the London Conference, 1866 © Rogers Cantel. Reproduced by the kind permission of Rogers Communications Inc. Source: National Archives of Canada/C-006799
	Study time at Native residential school, (Fort) Resolution, NWT © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, PA-042133
	Lumbering in New Brunswick © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, C-010347
	Halifax © National Archives of Canada, C-122860
	Winnipeg in 1871 © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, C-017922
	North West Mounted Police town station on 4th Avenue, Dawson, Yukon Territory © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, C-022074
	Oats from a new land, Alberta (A Swede homesteader, 1919) © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, PA-018177
	View of St. John's © Public Domain Credit: National Archives of Canada, C-066425