A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern seated left in wooden armchair

seated left in wooden armchair

Year 5 (May 1797)

Tarawera landscape looking back along the survey party's route and showing their footprints

View showing figures and horse-drawn vehicles on the street

Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

A French Canadian army recruitment poster tiger pattern seated left in wooden armchairA French Canadian army recruitment poster, 1914. 619,636 soldiers enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France in World War I. By the latter stages of the war the Canadians were regarded as elite troops by both the Allies and the Germans.