Visibly Ordered: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Museums and the Colonial Order of Things
This section is dedicated to looking at the ways in which the visual representations of collective identities in colonial Canadas is manifested through museum and archiving practices. As controlling mechanisms for the British and other European newcomers, various modes of visual culture - drawings, maps, prints, etc. - were used to create knowledge about the unfamiliar environment by indexing details of the geography, climate, history, geology, and morphology of the land.
