2017: Celebrating 150 years of working in the national capital area
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Preparing streetcar track in front of Albert Street bus garage, October 25,1951 / City of Ottawa Archives/RG045/CA022802
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E B Eddy Workers / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4453983
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Royal Canadian Mint workers at furnace and checking coins.1982 / Public Service Alliance of Canada archive
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Ottawa Electric Railway snow sweeper c. 1891 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3401684
Photographer: William James Topley
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Picking ice at the Chaudière Falls, 21 February 1918 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3545180
Photographer: John Boyd
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Ottawa Court house rally during OPSEU Strike, Spring 2002 / Workers’ History Museum Archive A48-004
Photographer: Ken Clavette
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Colonel By watching the building of the Rideau Canal, 1826 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 2835224 / 2897204
Artist: Charles William Jefferys, 1869-1951
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Cookery on J.R. Booth’s raft c 1880 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3193658
Photographer: William James Topley
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Letter box collection by auto-truck, June 28th, 1938 / Post Office, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3383555
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J. R. Booth Sawmill with Lumber Carts, and Lumber 1907 / Canada Science and Technology Museum PHO-0980
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Peddler Saul Tanner with horse and cart, c. 1923 / Ottawa Jewish Archives OJA 1-714-03
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Rideau Canal lockmaster opening a lock between 1955-1963 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 4316677
Photographer: Rosemary Gilliat Eaton
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Locomotive no 7, Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway Gracefield Québec c 1890 / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3623597
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Ottawa Public School Board classroom, 1943 / City of Ottawa Archives MG397-E00673/CA022769
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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
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Cutting ice on the Ottawa River to use in iceboxes / Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3371777
Photographer: William James Topley