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Frontier Life

Borderlands, Settlement, and Colonial Encounters

Postcards, images, and primary source documents of the British colonial frontier.

Find materials depicting North America, Africa, and Australasia, including settlers and Indigenous peoples, from 1650 to 1920.

This information comes from the Glenbow Museum, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba, the National Archives UK, and Cambridge University.

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