Landmarks and Landscapes
The cenotaph on Beechey Island commemorates British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.
Franklin died in 1847 during his third expedition to discover the elusive Northwest Passage. The relics of this expedition were found on Beechey Island in 1850.
During a tour of Canada in 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth look out over Niagara Falls from Table Rock.
Photographer Jack Williams broke through the police lines to capture this shot.
Fritz Henle, a German-American photographer was known for his strong sense of composition.
Henle’s work covered a range of photographic genres– including travel, fashion, commercial, portrait, journalistic, documentary, celebrity, industry, landscape and culture.
Frank Hurley was Australia’s official war photographer during both World Wars. Hurley mounted several expeditions to the island of Papua New Guinea between 1920 and 1926.
In 1921, he created the documentary Pearl and Savages about the people of Papua New Guinea and Torres Strait.
While working at the Toronto Star, photographer Andrew Stawicki won two National Newspaper Award. He went on to found PhotoSensitive in Toronto.
This photo is one of a series of photos capturing life in Castelfranco that was taken for the Toronto Star in 1992.
During his career at the Toronto Star, photojournalist Boris Spremo travelled the world taking photos in areas of conflict and strife.
Spremo also produced photographic essays in international locations in times of peace. This poignant image was captured in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
Photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams is best known for his iconic images of the American West – especially Yosemite National Park, which he photographed throughout his career.
Toronto Star photographer Boris Spremo won a National Newspaper Award for this widely published image of a construction worker waiting for a horizontal beam to be lifted into place on the Toronto Dominion Centre.
Spremo walked about twenty feet along a 12-inch wide beam to get the proper angle for the shot.