Royal Engineers, Ox Train at Dead Horse Creek, photo, ca 1873 |
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Employing the cumbersome wet-plate photographic process, the Royal Engineers photographed the length of the 49th parallel in two separate expeditions between 1858 and 1874. |
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Courtesy of National Archives of Canada, PA-74645 |