Time Travel: The Portal from Library and Archives Canada

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Time Travel: The Portal from Library and Archives Canada

The Repeat Photography Team relies on historical photographs to determine which mountains to visit in the field, and compare them with modern photos to analyze how the landscape has changed since surveyors last stood there. But where do those historical photographs come from? Alina Fisher and Sonia Voicescu traveled to Library and Archives Canada to explore and process thousands of historical photographs, and they’ve shared their time travel experience.

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What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

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What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

As the Oblique Photography team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to find the locations where land surveyors once stood to photograph the landscape. Sometimes it’s a bit more complicated (see our last blog post!), but sometimes there is a nice, friendly marker left behind by surveyors of the past…

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Repeat Photography in the Field - How does the Oblique Photography team get those photos lined up?

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Repeat Photography in the Field - How does the Oblique Photography team get those photos lined up?

If someone gave you a 100-year-old photo of the mountains and asked you to find the exact spot the photographer stood, do you think you could do it? Every summer, members of our Oblique Photography Team and the Mountain Legacy Project prove they are up to the challenge - find out how they do it!

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Why study historical fire regimes and how do we do it?

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Why study historical fire regimes and how do we do it?

Here at Landscapes in Motion, we talk a lot about “looking to the past” to understand how fire regimes have shaped the landscapes of the southern Rockies in Alberta. Cameron Naficy explains how the Fire Regime team collects and interprets historical clues in order to reconstruct the fire regimes of the past - and why it’s important they do so.

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