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In order to track the high rates of population growth in western Canada, the Canadian government called for a special census of the Prairie Provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). This endeavour continued every 10 years from 1906 to 1956, at which time the Census of the Prairie Provinces became part of the Canada-wide census. Through this research tool you can access digitized images of original census returns, which recorded the names of family members, their sex, marital status, year of immigration to Canada, etc.

The photo, shown below, was taken by the inventor of the Daguerreotype himself, Louis Daguerre, on the streets of Paris in 1838. Hokumburg claims, in his post, that this is the first photograph of a human being.

The original First World War collection comprised over 1,000 items of film relating mainly to the last three years of the war. Highlights of the collection include the original 1916 record of The Battle of the Somme, home front material such as Mrs John Bull Prepared (1918), a substantial run of the French official newsreel Annales de la Guerre and the remarkable record of German U-boat operations in the Mediterranean in 1917, Der Magische Gurtel.

Flatland is a fiction written by Edwin Abbott in 1884. (34 thousand words) For detail about the author, see Wikipedia: Edwin Abbott Abbott↗ (1838-1926). In the first part of the fiction, you'll read a mock-history of humanity. Its class struggle, intrigues, dark politics, and massacres. In the second part, the author leads you sublimely into the mathematical wonders of dimensionality, in ways you cannot refuse to understand.