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Return to search results Above Ground: Mining StoriesThomas Gushul. Street with McGillivray Creek Mine Tipple in the distance, Coleman 1930. Glenbow Museum and Archives, NC-54-2926. Organized by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Art-and-industry historian Rosemary Donegan presents life on Canada’s industrialized frontiers by means of community-based commercial photography. The photographs date from the turn of the 19th century through the 1960s, and they show almost every aspect of mining life except the underground workings. The coast-to-coast coverage includes 1960s Glace Bay photographs by Leslie Shedden, from the NSCAD Archives. As Donegan comments, [Local commercial] photography shared many of the same attributes of prospecting, exploration and entrepreneurial zeal that characterized the development of mining in Canada. Thus, while detached from the fine-art conventions of social documentary, the photographs by Shedden, Gushul and Hayashi respond with equal rigour to specific standards of authenticity and aesthetic value. Hayashi Studios. Johnnie Millar and Jim Potter. Cumberland Museum, C192-20. Leslie Shedden. No. 20 Colliery. Les Howell, stable manager, with Shirley, one of the pit ponies 1952. NSCAD Archives, Halifax. Mining Stories is supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Exhibition Image Click on the image to enlarge it. |