Apr 29, 2019 | Historic photos, MLP News
Introducing MLP’s first historic mountain images from Canada’s Northwest Territories The Mountain Legacy Project has long hoped to examine historic glass plate negatives from the Northwest Territories. Last year, while working with research colleagues from...
Nov 4, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News
Just last month Mountain Legacy team members gathered in Banff with over 150 other mountain researchers for Thinking Mountains 2018 (TM2018). This deeply interdisciplinary summit – the third in a series of conferences started in 2012 – was a standout. Topics...
Oct 17, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News
On October 5th, 2018, Spark, CBC Radio’s weekly program exploring technology, innovation and design, went out with the Mountain Legacy Project to do some repeat photography. Full disclosure – the repeat photography session actually happened in August this...
Aug 2, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News, Notes from the Field
From July 23 – 26th, 2018 UVic’s Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) joined forces with Dr. Liza Piper from University of Alberta’s Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) to rephotograph images from the historic Alberta Coal Branch area. The team was...
May 28, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News, Notes from the Field
The back story: Mountain Legacy Project director, Eric Higgs, finds himself involved in repeat photography project in Amsterdam, about as far physically and psychologically from the mountains of western Canada as one can get. He is spending the year working on his...
Apr 12, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News
Editor’s Note, April 25th, 2018: Alex Hakonson has an update to this article – he has located the stations where William Ogilvie stood when he took the images detailed in this post. Alex has created an image taken from Google Earth with the photo plate...
