Image: North-West Mounted Police, Fort Calgary, 1878

Description: North-West Mounted Police, Fort Calgary. Library and Archives Canada / C-008200, listing it as copyright expired.
Title: North-West Mounted Police, Fort Calgary, 1878
Credit: http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3192790
Author: Library and Archives Canada lists author as "unknown"; the copyright claim written on lower right of the photograph is Ernest Brown, which may be the early photographer Ernest Brown, photographer (b at Newcastle upon Tyne 8 Sept 1877; d at Edmonton 3 Jan 1951), who collected early photographs and negatives. Brown purchased the stock and negatives of C. W. Mathers at the start of his career; Mathers had come to Edmonton in 1891 to open a branch for the Calgary firm of Boorne and May, and later bought their entire collection, which may well be where this negative came from. The 1878 date, however, would predate the arrival of Ernest May and his cousin William Hanson Boorne, who emigrated to Canada in 1882; either the date may be inaccurate, or May and Boorne may have acquired it from another photographer.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No