The Earl Grey party at ‘Big Tree’ in Stanley Park, deposited in 1906 by Fricke and Schenck [copyright number 17684]. Cars are only occasionally seen in the collection, British colonial figures are more common.

Featured on PDR in the essay Canada Through a Lens: the British Library Colonial Copyright Collection

THE BRITISH LIBRARY — Phil Hatfield and Andrew Gray kick off our brand new Curator’s Choice series by taking a look at the fascinating array of photographs in the British Library’s Canadian Colonial Copyright Collection.