A celebration of the photographic document with an essay that traces the history of the collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and its predecessor, the Still Photography division of the National Film Board of Canada. Drawn from assignments to cover the country, its resources and its people, the 45 high quality reproductions show some of the best works by Canada's documentary photographers from the 1940s through to the 1960s. Work by Yousuf Karsh, Nick Morant, John Max and many more