1938–1987
Pictures from company
annual reports.
When Canada used to build things.
122 pictures · 64 companies
This book
These pictures were printed as covers and inside pages of annual reports.
Pours, pits, pumpjacks, chip piles, elevators, lakers, a turbotrain. People doing physical work on the Shield, the prairie, the coast, the ice.
Canada built these things. We need to make manufacturing better, cheaper, and faster — as easy to make a physical thing as it is to make software. Canada’s resources demand it. The tools exist. The materials are here.
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