Outdoors

Photography: Vintage Beaches

At a beach in Renfrew County, Ontario, circa 1910

Library and Archives Canada does a great job of curating interesting flashbacks and gems from the country’s history, some of them just so whimsical, including these images of beaches. Check out the LAC blog, here.

Tourist cabins at Wasaga Beach, Ontario, 1949.

View from the beach of the SS Okanagan at the wharf, Kelowna, British Columbia, 1910.

Sunnyside Beach, Toronto, 1914

Beach at Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, 1950

Shaw’s Hotel, Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island, 1952.

Date and location unknown

Beach at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1960

Click on any image to go to the original.

See the full album, here.

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