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L'équipe de hockey du pensionnat indien de Malioténam,...

 

L'équipe de hockey du pensionnat indien de Malioténam, Québec, vers 1950. The hockey team of the residential school of Maliotenam. Canada. Affaires indiennes et du Nord / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-212964.

Garçons en train de former des équipes pour jouer au hockey...

 

Garçons en train de former des équipes pour jouer au hockey à la baie de Sarnia, [Ontario], le 29 décembre 1908. Boys choosing sides for hockey on Sarnia Bay, [Ont.], 29 Dec., 1908, John Boyd / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-060732

Future hockey stars are instructed in proper method of body...

 

Future hockey stars are instructed in proper method of body checking in Arnprior, Ont., January 1956.  National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA-111481.

Women's hockey team, Queen's University, Kingston,...

Women's hockey team, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario] 1917. Whitton, C. / Library and Archives Canada / PA-127274.

Oxford Canadian ice hockey team, champions of Europe, 1909-10....

Oxford Canadian ice hockey team, champions of Europe, 1909-10. Library and Archives Canada / C-002028

"Hockey action." Canada. Dept. of National Defence /...

"Hockey action." Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / e008128998

Library and Archives Canada Out-of-Copyright Image Challenge

So, my most popular posts have been the archival images I posted from the Library and Archives Canada image database (here: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/images). I love poking around in image databases, and I'm going to post more. But I need keywords to start with. Send me keywords-general enough so I'll get a lot of hits-and I'll search the database (it contains photographs, illustrations, technical drawings, graphic art, videos, images of textual documents, and more) and choose images to post for at least a week—let's say from a week until I get bored. I think I mentioned it before—I lived and breathed this database when I was a photo researcher on Canadian historical books. And it's been much improved since back in the day!

I'll start with my own keywords, and first up "hockey." Predictable? Let us see.

The images I'll use aren't all strictly public domain, but some have been assigned "no restrictions on use" by the Library and Archives, which owns the copyright.

Beautiful Typographic poster from Tom Davie

Beautiful Typographic poster from Tom Davie

"But there is something about a tale, a story, that will be always going on. I do not believe men..."

"But there is something about a tale, a story, that will be always going on. I do not believe men will ever tire of telling or hearing stories. And if along with the pleasure of being told a story we get the additional pleasure the dignity of verse, then something great will have happened. Maybe I am an old-fashioned man from the nineteenth century, but I have optimism, I have hope; and — as the future, perhaps, holds all things—I think the epic will come back to us. I believe that the poet shall once again be a maker. I mean, he will tell a story and he will also sing it."

- Borges, This Craft of Verse

fer1972:The Lower Deadhorse Fall Festival and Nonchalant...

fer1972:

The Lower Deadhorse Fall Festival and Nonchalant Balancing Competition of 1892 by HaggisVitae