DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Between Friends: A Snapshot of Canada-U.S. Relations:
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June 14 - August 30, 2019
For over 150 years, Canada has had no closer friend and ally than the United States. We work together to make our two countries safer and more prosperous so we can build a better future on both sides of the border.
This exhibit was created by the Meridian International Center and was first displayed in 2017 at the U.S. Embassy in Canada with the title Northern Lights: 150 years of Canada-U.S. Relations. The Embassy of Canada has adapted the original exhibition to highlight several of the people and events that have brought the U.S. and Canada together throughout our interwoven histories. The exhibit also includes content celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Embassy’s opening at 501 Pennsylvania Ave, NW.
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ECFRIE_190619_006.JPG: Canadian World War II Battledress
ECFRIE_190619_009.JPG: American World War II Winter Service
ECFRIE_190619_017.JPG: Between Friends
A Snapshot of Canada-US Relations
ECFRIE_190619_023.JPG: Willie O'Ree
ECFRIE_190619_026.JPG: Gordie Howe
ECFRIE_190619_029.JPG: Wayne Gretzky
ECFRIE_190619_036.JPG: Jackie Robinson
ECFRIE_190619_039.JPG: Basketball
ECFRIE_190619_049.JPG: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride
ECFRIE_190619_054.JPG: FBI Windbreaker
ECFRIE_190619_058.JPG: Royal Canadian Mounted Police & The FBI
ECFRIE_190619_065.JPG: Anne of Green Gables
ECFRIE_190619_069.JPG: MGM Studios
ECFRIE_190619_076.JPG: Mary Pickford
ECFRIE_190619_098.JPG: Alexander Graham Bell
ECFRIE_190619_107.JPG: Frederick Banting
ECFRIE_190619_112.JPG: Two Way Radio
ECFRIE_190619_122.JPG: Space
ECFRIE_190619_131.JPG: Harriet Tubman
ECFRIE_190619_135.JPG: Gold Rush
ECFRIE_190619_138.JPG: 1898. Buying minsers' licenses in Victoria, British Columbia.
ECFRIE_190619_147.JPG: Gettysburg
Sir William McDougall, one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation, attended President Abraham Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address in 1863. McDougall was in the U.S. to renegotiate the Reciprocity Treaty, a trade agreement between the U.S. and British Territories of Canada, when the President invited him to the opening of the new Gettysburg Cemetery. The two were personal friends.
ECFRIE_190619_149.JPG: 1869. William McDougall
ECFRIE_190619_153.JPG: 1863. William McDougall on stage before President Lincoln's address. President Lincoln is at left center, without a hat; McDougall can be seen seated, wearing a hat, between the second and third persons from the right.
ECFRIE_190619_163.JPG: Niagara Falls
ECFRIE_190619_165.JPG: 1890. Samuel Dixon crossing the Niagara River near the Michigan Center Railway Bridge.
ECFRIE_190619_166.JPG: 1901. Annie Edson Taylor crossing the Niagara River after surviving her famous trip over the falls.
ECFRIE_190619_169.JPG: Halifax Explosion
ECFRIE_190619_174.JPG: Workers clear debris from the North Street Station the day after the explosion.
ECFRIE_190619_176.JPG: A view across the devastated neighborhood of Richmond in Halifax, Nova Scotia after the Halifax Explosion, looking toward the Dartmouth side of the harbor.
ECFRIE_190619_178.JPG: September 11th
On September 11, 2001, 38 commercial airliners traveling from Europe and Asia to the United States were abruptly diverted to Gander, Newfoundland when U.S. airspace was closed as part of "Operation Yellow Ribbon." In the aftermath, Gander -- population 10,000 -- hosted over 6,500 stranded passengers, providing food and shelter. Today, the popular musical Come from Away tells this story.
ECFRIE_190619_183.JPG: An aerial view of the Halifax runway jammed with jets which had nowhere to go once the U.S. closed its airspace. This was a scene repeated at many major airports across Canada which had to scramble to accommodate dozens of unexpected flights.
ECFRIE_190619_187.JPG: Gander International Airport tarmac where 37 flights were diverted to the town's airport. The community of less than 10,000 people suddenly had to find shelter and food for 6,700 people.
ECFRIE_190619_189.JPG: September 11th Tribute in Light from Bayonne, New Jersey
ECFRIE_190619_193.JPG: Come from Away is a musical set in the week following the September 11 attacks. It tells the true story of what transpired when 38 planes were ordered to land unexpectedly in the small town of Gander in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
ECFRIE_190619_205.JPG: American Ambassadors to Canada
ECFRIE_190619_207.JPG: Canadian Ambassadors to the U.S.
ECFRIE_190619_210.JPG: Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States
ECFRIE_190619_218.JPG: Ogdensburg Agreement
ECFRIE_190619_222.JPG: 1942-1945. U.S. Army ski troops practice kick turns in the Dominion of Newfoundland.
ECFRIE_190619_227.JPG: First Special Service Force
ECFRIE_190619_230.JPG: The FSSF helped liberate Rome on 4 June 1944, rushing into the German-defended city to seize important bridges and road junctions.
ECFRIE_190619_235.JPG: January, 1944. Nocci, Italy. First Special Service Force Lieutenant Joe Kostelec, Calgary, Alberta wearing the distinctive FSSF patch on his shoulder.
ECFRIE_190619_238.JPG: D-Day
ECFRIE_190619_242.JPG: June 7-10, 1944. Canadians on Juno Beach.
ECFRIE_190619_244.JPG: August 8-14, 1944. Nurses and wounded soldiers.
ECFRIE_190619_247.JPG: Two Canadians with a Nazi flag souvenir.
ECFRIE_190619_250.JPG: July 25, 1944. Royal Canadian Air Force with Allied fighters roaming the skies, attacking German forces from above.
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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