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28 May 2009

19th Century CPR Photos at Kelowna Art Gallery


Photos taken in the 19th and 20 century for the CPR will
be exhibited at the Kelowna Art Gallery.
 
 
Kelowna British Columbia - The Kelowna Art Gallery is presenting Prints from CPR Magic Lantern Slides 1885-1930.
 
The 75 images in the show are of views from across Canada and were created in the late 19th and early 20th century in order to promote travel on the CPR railway and vacation stays in the CPR hotels.
 
Created mostly by photographers who are now anonymous, the original images were in a format called lantern slides, the precursor to 35 mm slide transparencies.
 
The Vancouver-based co-curator of the exhibition, Michael Lawlor, scanned the images, and then digitally removed any scratches and flaws that had occurred over time. He then printed the files on archival paper for this touring exhibition.
 
Used by the Canadian Pacific Railway to promote passenger rail travel, the photographs were created during a time of nationalism and nation building, and speak of optimism and pride.
 
This exhibition is co-curated by Bill Jeffries, and is circulated by the Simon Fraser University Gallery.
 
On Saturday, 6 Jun 2009, at 1 p.m., Lawlor will be at the Kelowna Art Gallery for a lecture on the exhibition. Using the original slides and a vintage magic lantern, he will recreate a magic lantern slide lecture as it would have been seen 100 years ago. This lecture will represent 45 years of Canadian development, and shows how our search for immigrants changed for our early need for agricultural workers to our later requirements in developing a growing industrial base. Attendance at the lecture is included with the cost of admission.
 
The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water St.
 
 
   
Cordova Station is located on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada