Cities, Towns, Villages, Environs
Photographs by George Hunter
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1952. PH2009:0005:002
Postwar housing, Ottawa, Ontario, 1952. PH2009:0005:046
The Red River separating St. Vital, Norwood, and St. Boniface from Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1953. PH2009:0005:088
Rouleau on the great Regina Plain, Saskatchewan, 1954. PH2009:0005:026
River Heights area, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1954. PH2009:0005:030
New community for Canadian British Aluminium, Baie-Comeau North, Quebec, 1956. PH2009:0005:086
George Hunter. Eldorado Mining and Refining Company’s Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, 1957. PH2009:0005:027
Community for Keno Hills Mines, Elsa, Yukon, 1958. PH2009:0005:001
Sambro village, Nova Scotia, 1958. PH2009:0005:080
Prospect, Nova Scotia, 1959. PH2009:0006:063
One of Canada’s first shopping malls, Calgary, Alberta, 1960. PH2009:0005:015
Flin Flon, Manitoba, 1960. PH2009:0006:014
Noranda mine and housing, Porcupine, Ontario, 1964. PH2009:0006:033
Community for Wesfrob Mine, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, 1965. PH2009:0006:004
St. Lawrence River and Habitat 67, Montreal, 1967. PH2009:0005:075
After working as a photojournalist for the Winnipeg Tribune in the early 1940s, George Hunter became a photographer for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1950, he earned his pilot’s licence, bought a small plane, and started his own business. Crossing Canada several times a year, he shot aerial views of cities and towns for Crown corporations and private companies. His images were published in magazines such as Time, Fortune, and National Geographic and reproduced in encyclopedias, textbooks, and atlases.
Hunter’s extensive corpus of images is a unique record of Canadian urban landscapes in the particular socio-economic context of the 1940s through 1970s, a long period of growth in the country. The photographs above are selected from two series, Canada, Cities, Towns, Villages, Environs: Heritage Images and Communities: To House Industrial Workers.
We have 153 photographs by George Hunter in our collection, 151 of which make up the two series mentioned above.
