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

Preparing streetcar track in front of Albert Street bus garage, October 25,1951 / City of Ottawa Archives/RG045/CA022802

E B Eddy Workers / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4453983

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 MIKAN 3401684
Photographer: William James Topley

Picking ice at the Chaudière Falls, 21 February 1918 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3545180
Photographer: John Boyd

Ottawa Court house rally during OPSEU Strike, Spring 2002 / Workers’ History Museum Archive A48-004
Photographer: Ken Clavette

Colonel By watching the building of the Rideau Canal, 1826 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 2835224 / 2897204
Artist: Charles William Jefferys, 1869-1951

Cookery on J.R. Booth’s raft c 1880 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3193658
Photographer: William James Topley

Letter box collection by auto-truck, June 28th, 1938 / Post Office, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3383555

J. R. Booth Sawmill with Lumber Carts, and Lumber 1907 / Canada Science and Technology Museum PHO-0980

Peddler Saul Tanner with horse and cart, c. 1923 / Ottawa Jewish Archives OJA 1-714-03

Rideau Canal lockmaster opening a lock between 1955-1963 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4316677
Photographer: Rosemary Gilliat Eaton

Locomotive no 7, Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway Gracefield Québec c 1890 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3623597

Ottawa Public School Board classroom, 1943 / City of Ottawa Archives MG397-E00673/CA022769

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 MIKAN 3197099

Cutting ice on the Ottawa River to use in iceboxes / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3371777
Photographer: William James Topley