2017: Celebrating 150 years of working in the national capital area

E B Eddy Workers / Library and Archives Canada

Royal Canadian Mint workers at furnace and checking coins.1982 / Public Service Alliance of Canada archive

Ottawa Electric Railway snow sweeper c. 1891 / Library and Archives Canada
Photographer: William James Topley

Picking ice at the Chaudière Falls, 21 February 1918 / Library and Archives Canada
Photographer: John Boyd

Ottawa Court house rally during OPSEU Strike, Spring 2002 / Workers’ History Museum Archive
Photographer: Ken Clavette

Colonel By watching the building of the Rideau Canal, 1826 / Library and Archives Canada
Artist: Charles William Jefferys, 1869-1951

Cookery on J.R. Booth’s raft c 1880 / Library and Archives Canada
Photographer: William James Topley

Letter box collection by auto-truck, June 28th, 1938 / Post Office, Library and Archives Canada

J. R. Booth Sawmill with Lumber Carts, and Lumber 1907 / Canada Science and Technology Museum

Peddler Saul Tanner with horse and cart, c. 1923 / Ottawa Jewish Archives

Rideau Canal lockmaster opening a lock between 1955-1963 / Library and Archives Canada
Photographer: Rosemary Gilliat Eaton

Locomotive no 7, Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway Gracefield Québec c 1890 / Library and Archives Canada

Ottawa Public School Board classroom, 1943 / City of Ottawa Archives

Female workers Ella Meilke (left) and Freda Perry working on compasses for Canadian ships in the plant of the Ontario Hughes Owens Company Ltd. October 1943 / National Film Board of Canada / Library and Archives Canada

Cutting ice on the Ottawa River to use in iceboxes / Library and Archives Canada
Photographer: William James Topley