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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

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A view looking along part of Little Champlain Street towards a steep flight of steps. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railway.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/323.

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A view looking across the St. Lawrence with warehouses and commercial buildings on the waterline and the Chateau Frontenac dominating the skyline on the hill beyond. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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228 x 175 mm. A view looking up towards the ramparts of the Citadel. In the foreground sailors stand around a cannon in an open space in front of a barrack building. Photographer possibly Louis-Prudent Vallée.

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On the Lac Quarean River, near Rawdon, 8 miles from Montcalm, Quebec Province. These falls are never frozen.

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On the building of the G.P.O. Quebec.

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On the building of the G.P.O. Quebec.

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Now a barbers.

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Now a barbers.

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228 x 127 mm. A view of the falls from below. The Montmorency Falls are the entry point of the Montmorency River into the St Lawrence, 7 miles north-east of Quebec. Photograph by Louis-Prudent Vallée. (Copy in Canadian National Archives dated April 22 1871.)

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227 x 178 mm. A view of the Falls in winter, partially frozen and with the characteristic cone formed by spray in front. Photographer possibly Louis-Prudent Vallée.

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A view looking across the tree-bordered open space towards buildings in the distance. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railways.

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229 x 177 mm A view looking across the St Lawrence with Queen’s Wharf in the foreground, sailing ships in the river and Point Levi on the farther shore. Photograph by Louis-Prudent Vallée (copy in the Canadian National Archives dated April 25 1870.)

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1 manuscript postcard signed. Heaney notes that he is in Québec and regrets not being in Dublin to greet Cooke and Pam [Berry].

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The final three prints include one of Times Square, New York, and two taken during the voyage from New York to the United Kingdom.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 2001-2175 (originally there were 172). Added numbers are: 2103A-B, 2124A; spoiled: 2067, 2077 and 2162; not used: 2123, 2167 and 2171; missing: 2017, 2048, 2050, 2075, 2079, 2103, 2106, 2124A, 2129 and 2170. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 2129 follows 2161. Subjects covered in this album are:Canada: voyage in 'Empress of Britain', emigrants, Rimouski, St Lawrence;...

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Landscape format. On the Plains of Abraham.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/327.

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A Champlain: La Ville de Quebec.

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227 x 175 mm. A view looking up towards the Citadel ramparts from the frozen banks of the St Lawrence River, with figures on the snow in the foreground facing the camera. Photographer possibly Louis-Prudent Vallée.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Kept open all through the winter by an ice breaker.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Kept pen all through the winter by an ice breaker.

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339 x 247 mm. A view looking across the Saint Lawrence from Levis towards the western bank of the river. Dominating the skyline on the far side is the Citadel, with Dufferin Terrace and other city buildings to its right. The Chateau Frontenac, nowadays a prominent landmark beside the Citadel, has not yet been built. In the foreground large blocks of ice litter the river bank. Print signed ‘Henderson’.

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Quarter-plate. Looking along the outer side of the Bassin Louise.