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Part of Expo 67 Collection
Interior view photograph. Educational display about famous English reformers, Wycliffe & Knox in the Britain pavilion's "Genius of Britain" themed section.
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Interior view photograph. Educational display about Nobel Prize winner, Winston Churchill in the Britain pavilion's "Genius of Britain" themed section.
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Exterior view photograph. Western Provinces Pavilion exterior (lot C-410). The daring roof stucture of the Western Provinces Pavilion was designed to symbolize the transition from the horizontal planes of the Prarie Provinces (Manitoba and Saskatchewan) to the tall mountain regions of British Columbia and Alberta. Live trees projected from the centre of the roof furthering the landscape inspired visitors entering through a corridor leading to a theatre with a show about the poeple of the West. The procession followed to a mine shaft cage, a simulated descent and finally to a mine tunnel exhibit. The ten following exhibits continued along and were devoted to Western Canadian forests, mines, fishing, petroleum, agriculture electricity and people. Upward curving conical roof structure. Reinforced concrete walls and floors finished with cement plaster. Laminated B.C Fir roof and wood decking. (S: 104' x 117' --- A: 12,500 sq. ft. --- H: 48' 6")
Walter Crane Sketchbook Collection
The collection consists of six of Walter Crane’s sketchbooks. Two of the sketchbooks date to the summer of 1864, and the remaining four date to the summers of 1897, 1901, 1903, and 1905. The collection’s dates offer a contrast between Crane’s early and later career as an artist. The contents feature his preliminary designs, pictorial observations of the world, and textual notes.
Crane’s sketchbooks are filled with landscapes and towns and building interiors and exteriors from Crane’s life in England and travels to Ireland. Aligned with Crane’s commissioned and published works, the sketchbooks include sketches for his book designs, a heraldic eagle, and plans for a panel painting or frieze. Flora, fauna, men, women, children, Greco-Roman figures and architectural details make up the wide range of subjects covered in the sketchbooks.
The drawings range from Crane’s rough ideas expressed in his preliminary sketches and line drawings to tonal drawings and studies of individuals, landscapes, and flowers. The drawing techniques play with perspective, topography, bodily gesture, facial expression, tone, line, outline, form, and colour.
Crane’s notations appear throughout the sketchbooks, including on the sketches themselves and on their facing pages. He also hand-wrote inspirational excerpts from poems and essays which includes quotes from Charles Kingsley and John Ruskin works.
Between blank and torn pages, the medium for the textual and visual content shifts between pen and pencil on paper. Several landscapes are full-page watercolours on paper.
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Untitled Notebook – England and France, 1865
Part of Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds
This file consists of a bound volume containing notes with some drawings and diagrams from a trip to England and France in 1865. Includes drawings of icebergs and landscapes.
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Interior view photograph. Educational display about famous English painter, Thomas Gainsborough in the Britain pavilion's "Genius of Britain" themed section.
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Interior view photograph. Educational display about famous English furniture collection, Chippendale in the Britain pavilion's "Genius of Britain" themed section.
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Interior view photograph. Educational display about the English locomotive, Stephenson's Rocket, and it's creator in the Britain pavilion's "Genius of Britain" themed section.
S.S. "Empress of France" Programme: Saturday, 22nd September, 1956
Part of Menu Collection
Part of Expo 67 Collection
Exterior view photograph. The Royal Yacht, Britannia.