Capturing change.

From the Archives - Byron Harmon Photography

Below are digitized vintage postcards featuring Harmon’s images from the early-mid 1900s.

Photo by Mary Sanseverino.

2. Horses on Sask Glacier (1924).jpeg
3. Crowfoot Glacier.jpeg
5. Snowmobile, Columbia Icefield.jpeg
9. Crowfoot Glacier.jpeg
10. Athabasca Glacier.jpeg
11. Great Glacier, BC.jpeg
12. Mountaineering in the Cad Rockies.jpeg
13. Car before Mt Cathedral.jpeg
14. Angel Glacier, Mt Edith Cavell.jpeg
15. People on Athabasca Glacier.jpeg
16. Seracs, Illecilleawet Glacier.jpeg
17. Top Mt. Resplendant.jpeg
20. Bow Glacier, Bow Lake (est 1924).jpeg
21. Icefields Chalet and Snow Dome (est 1938).jpeg
23. Columbia Icefields.jpeg
24. Mt. Columbia (1924).jpeg
25. Mt. Assiniboine and Lake Magog.jpeg

Based in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) explores changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes through the world’s largest collection of systematic high-resolution historic mountain photographs a growing collection of repeat images.

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Mount Robson and Robson Glacier in 1911 vs. 2016.

The Athabasca Glacier in 1911 vs. 2011.