by James Tricker | Feb 10, 2023 | Historic photos, MLP research, Notes from the Field
The repeat photography undertaken at the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) requires thorough preparation before the season starts, and long days in the field hiking to remote peaks and promontories, as Claire and Daniel recount in their climb up Mt Alderson...
by Eric Higgs | Feb 26, 2022 | MLP News, MLP research
Eric Higgs, Mar 1, 2022 The Mountain Legacy Project launched a brand new Explorer tool. Building on our previous public-facing website it is a future-oriented platform for serving up images and information about the world’s largest systematic collection of mountain...
by Alina Fisher | May 18, 2021 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research
Jill Delaney, Lead Archivist, Photography, Private Archives, Library and Archives CanadaMay18, 2021 I write this blog from the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg (Algonquin) peoples in Ottawa, Ontario. The historical photographs discussed in this post...
by Alina Fisher | Apr 27, 2021 | MLP News, MLP research
Shahira Khair, Data Curation Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries | April 27, 2021 As our lives become increasingly digital through our growing reliance on digital tools for communication, work and entertainment (which has only accelerated through the...
by Alina Fisher | Mar 4, 2021 | MLP News, MLP research
by Spencer Rose | Mar 4, 2021 The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) collection is a vast visual record of ecosystem changes in Canada’s mountains. With more than 120,000 high-resolution historical photos spanning the 1860s through the 1950s, along...
by Alina Fisher | Jan 5, 2021 | MLP News, MLP research
Smoky view south over regenerating forest from the 2003 Lost Creek Fire. Courtesy: Kristen Walsh Kristen Walsh, January 5 2021 To mark the dawning of the new year, we draw your attention to wildfires in mountain landscapes and signs of renewal in Waterton Lakes...