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Eaton Drug Catalogue – again

Toronto. Back in 2017, I uploaded the c1911 Eaton Drug catalogue provided by Robert Wilson. Recent [December, 2024] analysis using a different criteria determined it to be a 1910 catalogue. Author David Kenny writes, ” … It was a chance … Continue reading

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early darkroom days …

Toronto. … really early days. When photography began, a photographer had to be not only an ‘artist’ but an all round ‘renaissance’ man. He had to create sensitized media, know how to expose same, and understand lighting. While cameras and … Continue reading

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the importance of connections …

Toronto. When Ev Roseborough took over as editor of Photographic Canadiana, we entered a new era. Ev’s vast network of fellow professional photographers  brought in many new members, some speakers, and a wealth of experience in the photographic industry. This … Continue reading

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get cha news here … read all about it ….

Toronto. In the days before – long before – the digital era, we learned of new photographic processes and apparatus through magazines. In the 1950s – 1980s, I bought every photography magazine in sight. These magazines were kept for a … Continue reading

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remembering Iris …

Toronto. In the article. “IRIS MCCAIG AND THE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES G. MILNE” the late Bob Lansdale relates his chat with Iris at 82 in the early fall 1992 journal issue 18-2. Iris is famous not only as a long … Continue reading

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Vera in 1930 …

Toronto. Members of a certain age group (old coots like me) remember the movie Laura and the haunting song of the same name. Nearly a century ago, John Vanderpant of Vancouver took this then fashionably soft focus portrait of a … Continue reading

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Official Photographers …

Toronto. “… The Work of Arthur Beales, Arthur Goss and Alfred Pearson” is a topic for an article in issue 18-2 announcing an exhibition at The Market Gallery of the City of Toronto Archives (Second Floor, South SI. Lawrence Market, … Continue reading

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hunt for the Nikon in darkest Toronto

Toronto. The late Fred Hunt was a professional photographer, a college teacher, a member of the PHSC, and a good friend of one of our co-founders, Larry Boccioletti. In issue 17-5 Fred wrote an interesting article titled, “On an expedition … Continue reading

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d…d…d…double t…t…t…take

Toronto.  Shades of George Dunbar and Mike Filey! These gentlemen too shot areas of Toronto matching archival photos for ‘then’ and ‘now’ images of the city as it grew. In issue 17-5, Randall Reid wrote an illustrated article about his … Continue reading

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way before ‘flash’ gordon …

Toronto. … in fact many decades before. NB. For those born after say 1990, here is the article on Mr Gordon. Meantime back  in the late 1800s, some enterprising folk came up with ways to compensate for the abysmally slow … Continue reading

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