08/30/2024

Photography: Vintage Beaches

At a beach in Renfrew County, Ontario, circa 1910

Library and Archives Canada does a great job of curating interesting flashbacks and gems from the country’s history, some of them just so whimsical, including these images of beaches. Check out the LAC blog, here.

Tourist cabins at Wasaga Beach, Ontario, 1949.
View from the beach of the SS Okanagan at the wharf, Kelowna, British Columbia, 1910.
Sunnyside Beach, Toronto, 1914
Beach at Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, 1950
Shaw’s Hotel, Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island, 1952.
Date and location unknown
Beach at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1960

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See the full album, here.


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