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The Beaver 's 10 Photos That Changed Canada
- The Last Spike, by Alexander J. Ross
The last spike is driven into the Canadian National Railway.
- Wait For Me, Daddy, by Claude Detloff
A child breaks free of his mother's hold to reach out to his father, who is marching off to fight in the First World War.
- Henderson's Goal, by Frank Lennon
Paul Henderson celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series with the Soviet Union.
- Terry's Journey, by Peter Martin
Terry Fox, before first light, begins another day in his Marathon of Hope.
- Standoff at Oka, by Shaney Komulainen
A Canadian soldier and Mohawk warrior stand face-to-face during the Oka conflict.
- Over the Top Forgery, by William Ivor Castle
The staged and doctored photograph of Canadian soldiers purportedly taken during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War.
- Canada's Miracle Babies, by unknown photographer
A photo of the Dionne quintuplet babies with Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn.
- A Terrible Turning Point, by Robert Nadon
Cabinet Minister Pierre Laporte's dead body in the trunk of a Front de libération du Québec car during the FLQ crisis in 1970.
- Trudeau: The Family Man, by Rod MacIvor
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau walks towards 24 Sussex Drive with a young Justin Trudeau tucked under his arm and an RCMP officer saluting him.
- Stanfield's Political Fumble, by Doug Ball
Conservative candidate for prime minister, Robert Stanfield, awkwardly drops a football during a campaign stop in the 1974 federal election.
note event in Ottawa Aug7/5Pm
The media is invited
to attend the unveiling in the main foyer at Library and Archives Canada, 395
Wellington Street, Ottawa at 5 p.m. Aug 7/08
OTTAWA, Aug. 5 /CNW/ - Did Paul Henderson's last-minute goal in the final
game of the legendary 1972 Summit Series in Moscow provide salvation for a
hockey-obsessed nation? Did the final iron spike in the railway linking east
with west serve as a snapshot of national unity? And how did the famous
standoff at Oka alter our cultural focus?
These astonishing images, featured in the August/September edition of The
Beaver: Canada's History Magazine, depict major Canadian events that reveal a
compelling visual journey through our age - an odyssey that's personal and
universal, immediate and timeless.
Mark Reid, Editor of The Beaver says, "Whether it be the evocative art
photography of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, a powerful war image that
revealed an historic forgery, or a terrible turning point in the October
Crisis of 1970, these photographs capture the images of a century of change in
this country and the role the camera has played both in creating and
documenting it."
Several months ago, The Beaver asked some of Canada's premier
photographers, photo editors and photography instructors to select ten photos
from our past that, they felt, had the greatest influence and impact on
Canada.
Over page after eye-catching page, these photos reveal the emotion of an
entire event or age captured in a single image. Whether it's Canada's
collective joy to the birth of the world's first surviving quintuplets, the
unwavering determination of a cancer-stricken amputee on a Marathon of Hope or
an endearing family photo of one of Canada's most charismatic Prime Ministers
- these photographs all figure into the life and legacy of pivotal moments in
Canadian history.
Don Newman, host of CBC Newsworld's Politics will host the official
unveiling of The Beaver's top 10 photos that changed Canada. Newman says,
"These images helped push us toward a change." Newman adds, "Dramatic and
intimate stories trace photography's role as a recorder of public events,
public historian, vehicle for artistic expression, and a tool for influencing
public opinion."
On Thursday, August 7, 2008 Canada's National History Society will
officially launch the 10 photographs that changed Canada. The media is invited
to attend the unveiling in the main foyer at Library and Archives Canada, 395
Wellington Street, Ottawa at 5 p.m. Attending the event will be Mark Reid,
Editor of The Beaver, Deborah Morrison, CEO, Canada's National History
Society, Beaver photo panel member Barry Gray (National Photo Editor for
Canwest News Service), along with photographers Peter Martin (Terry Fox
photo), Doug Ball (Robert Stanfield fumbles football) Shaney Komulainen
(Standoff at Oka photo) and Rod MacIvor(Trudeau carrying Justin under his arm photo))
Canada's National History Society is a Winnipeg-based charitable
organization devoted to popularizing Canadian history. In addition to
publishing The Beaver magazine, and the children's magazine Kayak: Canada's
History Magazine for Kids, the Society also operates two distinctive award
programs: the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history and the
Governor General's Awards for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History, which
honours innovative classroom teachers.
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Beaver Magazine names ten photos that changed Canada
Brendan Kennedy
The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Terry Fox silhouetted by a police car's headlights. Paul Henderson's jubilant celebration in 1972. The last spike in the railway that would unite the country. A baby-faced soldier standing nose-to-nose with a Mohawk warrior at Oka. A frantic child reaching for his father marching off to fight in the First World War.
These are the historic photos that changed Canada, according to The Beaver, a Canadian history magazine whose feature story in this month's issue lists the 10 photos that changed Canada as judged by its panel of experts. The magazine, which is published by Canada's National History Society, is on shelves now across the country and will be officially launched tomorrow in Ottawa at the Library and Archives of Canada offices.
Mark Reid, editor-in-chief of The Beaver, said he is always trying to find new ways to make Canadian history meaningful to people's daily lives, and he found photography to be one of the most evocative means to connect Canadians to their history.
"The beautiful thing and magical thing about these photographs is that there's such a visceral and emotional quality to photographs, that you can see a photograph and it can take you back to a time and a place and a memory," he said, adding that he wanted the list to contain photos that actually changed Canada in some way, whether socially or politically.
The magazine also goes behind the images to tell the stories of the photographers, their subjects and the context in which the photo was taken.
About eight months ago, Mr. Reid assembled his jury: five experts on photojournalism, including veteran photographers and photo editors, as well as a photojournalism instructor. He then asked them to come up with a working list of photos that had a major impact on Canada. The only stipulation was that the photos had to be historical in nature.
From that original list, Mr. Reid coordinated a voting process which eventually narrowed the list down to 10. The magazine doesn't rank the photos, but does break them up into a top-five group with five additional runners-up.
"Everybody agreed on the final 10, [and] everybody agreed on the final five, so I thought, after that let's let the public think about it."
Former Citizen photographer Rod MacIvor cracked the top 10 with his photo of Pierre Trudeau walking towards 24 Sussex Drive with young Justin Trudeau tucked under his arm. An RCMP officer is saluting them as they walk past. Judges said the photo reflected Mr. Trudeau's image as a family man.
Mr. MacIvor, who was a newspaper photographer for 37 years before retiring last year, was working for United Press International, an international wire service, when he took the photo. He said it was taken at a garden party at 24 Sussex Dr. and he was originally invited to be a guest as part of the media contingent. However, being the most junior reporter on staff, he had to work the event.
"It was just at the last minute that he threw Justin under his arm ... then the RCMP inspector saluted and I thought, 'Woah,'" he said. "I certainly didn't mind not being a guest after that."
The photo appeared on the front page of the Citizen the following day and later that year won a National Newspaper Award.
Doug Ball's photograph of Conservative candidate for prime minister Robert Stanfield during the 1974 federal election campaign had arguably the most direct impact on Canadian history. Many people argue to this day that the photo of Mr. Stanfield fumbling a football during a rest stop on the campaign trail, which appeared on the front page of The Globe and Mail, cost him the election.
But Mr. Ball said Mr. Stanfield never held any grudges about the photo, which also won a National Newspaper Award, and even autographed a copy for Mr. Ball more than a decade later.
"I've got the picture signed by him, and it says, 'To Doug: I should've taken off my tie. Robert Stanfield.'"
Shaney Komulainen's tense photo of a Canadian soldier and a Mohawk warrior standing face-to-face during the conflict at Oka, Que., was no easy feat for the young photographer. She was late, so she had to sneak through the woods in order to get past the military barricade.
"I snuck through backyards and past police cars with my camera tucked under my jacket, looking like one of the locals."
The baby-faced soldier, Patrick Cloutier, caught Ms. Komulainen's eye immediately.
"He just looked so young under that strong helmet and gear," she said. "... In the end, it summed up the whole crisis, because there was still this tense standoff, even 'till the end."
Mark Reid knows that there may be some controversy generated by the list, but he hopes it will at the very least inspire some debate about Canadian history
"I look at this as the beginning of a discussion point, as a way into a fun way of debating history and what were the key points in our history that really made the country that we're living in."
The magazine can be found in Ottawa at Chapters, Indigo, Mags and Fags and Smithbooks.
Beaver Magazine's judging panel: Michael Creagen, George Diack, Moe Doiron, Ric Ernst and Barry Gray.
For more information, see
www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp© The Ottawa Citizen 2008
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