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Photograph of Governor General Lord Grey with vice regal party including Lady Grey and Sir William Mortimer Clark, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, 1904 Photograph of executive administrators including Lord Strathcona, Governor General, seated at left, and Sir William Mulock, Postmaster General, seated second from left, 1899 Photograph of Parliament's West Block
First Orders:
Lieutenant-Governors
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1867-0001		 First Orders:
Department Heads
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Treasury Board
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1867-0003
Photograph of Sir John A. Macdonald with the British high commissioners, Washington, D.C., 1871 Photograph of councillors of the provisional government of the Métis Nation, Manitoba, 1870 Photograph of Métis and Native prisoners from the North West Rebellion, Regina, August 1885
Treaties, Territories and Tensions
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1873-0277		 The Red River Rebellion
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1875-0254		 The North West Rebellion
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1885-2158
1885-2181
Photograph of the original Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, featuring the Victoria Tower, completed in 1878 and destroyed by fire in 1916 Photograph of Parliament Buildings under construction, August or September 1863 Photograph of the Library of Parliament after 1885
Canada's Parliament Buildings
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1869-0156		 Heat and Light
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1880-0999		 Fire and Stone
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1878-0419
Photograph of members of the Blackfoot Nation, Calgary, Alberta Photograph of members of the Cree Nation at Prince Albert, 1885 Photograph of a group of West Coast Native people wearing ceremonial raven masks and robes
Indian Affairs
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1876-0167		 Preservation of the Peace
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1883-2122		 Potlatch
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1883-1465
Photograph of Robert Smith's Long Lake farm, six miles west of Edmonton, Alberta, August 1906 Photograph of the interior of the Library of Parliament 1898 Photograph of members of the Ottawa Blind Association, 1917, under a banner reading SIGHT THRU WORK
The Department of Agriculture
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1868-0523		 Agriculture, Culture and Copyright
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1872-0447		 Institutes for the Blind
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1888-1665G
Photograph of employees of the Dominion Atlantic Railway roundhouse, Ottawa, 1892 Photograph of Sandford Fleming with members an ocean to ocean expedition through Canada in 1872 Photograph of the LITTLE PORTLAND ENGINE, built about 1873 for the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway, later a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway
The Transcontinental Railway
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1881-0777		 Sir Sandford Fleming
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1883-1150		 The Pacific Scandal
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1873-0143 ½
Photograph of group including Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott Photograph of the Governor General's Foot Guards, circa 1875 Photograph of a meeting of the defence commissioners, 1862
The Culture of the Civil Service
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1880-0234		 The Civil Service Rifles
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1874-1552		 The Defences of Canada
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1888-1141G
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