PHOTO: HOWARD MORTON BROWN, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C002624 An 1800s bicycle owner in Ottawa. “If this craze for bicycle riding continues much longer our livery

A depiction of a 19th century book agent canvassing a farmer. “Success in book selling is not a matter of luck,” advises a small pamphlet

Topographer James McArthur and assistant W.S. Drewry carry photographic equipment to a mountaintop in 1887.   In the fall of 1910, an inconspicuous wooden box,

“The mission of the…Half-breed Commission has been entirely successful,” boasted commissioners James Walker and Arthur Côté in their final report to the federal government’s minister