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Elections Canada's 100th Anniversary
Historical Photo Gallery
Historical Photo Gallery
Explore ten intriguing images from past federal elections.
Election workers in Montréal hold metal ballot boxes, as they wait outside their local election office in 1953.
(Credit: The Montreal Gazette, Library and Archives Canada, e011200968)
These soldiers in the Netherlands were among nearly 350,000 Canadian military members who voted while overseas during the Second World War.
(Credit: Christopher J. Woods, Department of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, a160949)
A woman votes with her poodle on a leash in 1953. Today, only service animals are allowed in polling stations.
(Credit: The Montreal Gazette, Library and Archives Canada, e011200970)
Workers in the 1950s prepare legal notices to announce a coming federal election.
(Credit: Frank Royal/National Film Board of Canada, Photothèque, Library and Archives Canada, PA-169812)
Won Alexander Cumyou, 88, votes for the first time in 1949. As a Chinese-Canadian, he had previously been barred from voting.
(Credit: University of British Columbia Libraries Special Collections, Won Alexander Cumyow fonds. BC 1848, 9)
The first computers arrive at Elections Canada in the 1980s.
(Credit: Elections Canada)
An election worker rests while travelling to a northern community to deliver election supplies.
(Credit: National Film Board of Canada)
A man sits amid a sea of bags filled with election ballots in the 1950s.
(Credit: Elections Canada)
A woman exercises her democratic right to vote in this photo taken in the 1960s.
(Credit: Reg Innell, Toronto Star Photo Archive)
Voting in a wheelchair was not easy in 1963, before Parliament passed laws to make polling stations accessible.
(Credit: J. Marshall, National Film Board Collection, National Gallery of Canada)
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Marking 100 years
Serving Canadians everywhere
How we began
Leading federal elections
A Century of Evolution
Changing Rights, Changing Voters
Did you know?
Elections Canada at 100
Elections Canada through the decades
Bonus
: Photo Gallery
100th Anniversary Home page