NIAGARA FALLS IN 1840

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Image courtesy of the Robinson Library
Special Collections, Newcastle University, with thanks to Robin Anderson.

Hugh Lee Pattinsons’s image, first found twelve years ago in a box in Newcastle University in England, is the first photograph taken in Canada.

po9.jpg“whenever i was a child, i wondered what if my name had changed into something more productive”- midlake