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== First GLAM collaboration in Canada with BAnQ ==

[[File:News. V.E. Day BAnQ P48S1P12270.jpg|thumb|1945: Two young women read the front page of The Montreal Daily Star announcing the German surrender and the impending end of World War II in Europe.<br /><small>Photo: [[w:Conrad Poirier|Conrad Poirier]], PD-Canada, BAnQ Vieux-Montréal.</small>]]

The [[w:Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec|Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]] (BAnQ) and Wikimedia Canada are announcing a pilot project to upload public domain images from the Conrad Poirier collection at BAnQ Vieux-Montréal.<ref name="pistard">[http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=20070502092503105&p_classe=P&p_fonds=48&p_centre=06M&p_numunide=2029 Fund Conrad Poirier description], Pistard catalogue, [[w:Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec|Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]].</ref>

Freelance photographer, [[w:Conrad Poirier|Conrad Poirier]] (1912-1968) sold his photographs to various newspapers and magazines including [[w:The Gazette (Montreal)|The Montreal Gazette]], [[w:La Patrie|La Patrie]] and [[w:La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]. A follower of the "new vision" ([[w:fr:Nouvelle Vision|Nouvelle Vision]], a photographic movement  in the first half of the 20th century), he did social photography early on. He was interested in the working world, in street life and in popular events. Poirier's work shows the developement of Montreal through historical photographs, and more widely the province of Quebec, Canada. With more than 20,000 photographs, the collection includes photographs taken between 1932 and 1960, which show the evolution of the Quebec metropolis - especially during the 1930s and 1940s. More broadly, the work of Poirier reflects the social changes underway in Quebec in the middle of the last century. 

To date, approximately 700 photographs have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. In the coming months, an equivalent number of photographs will be added to the selection. This collaboration between a GLAM institution and Wikimedia is a first in Canada. Visit the [[w:Wikipedia:BAnQ|BAnQ GLAM page]] on the English Wikipedia and the [[Commons:Category:BAnQ-Projet Poirier|Category:BAnQ-Projet Poirier]] on Commons. Thank you to the archives diffusion team of BAnQ Vieux-Montréal.

:<small>— [[w:User:Benoit Rochon|Benoit Rochon]], Project Manager, Wikimedia Canada.</small>

== Wiki Loves Monuments : And the winner is... ==

[[File:Chapelle des Indiens, Tadoussac, Québec.jpg|thumb||left|'''Wiki Loves Monuments Canada'''<br />[[w:Tadoussac|Tadoussac]] Chapel was built in 1747, the oldest wooden church in North America, [[w:Quebec|Quebec]].<br /><small>Photo: [[Commons:User:Natidu|Natidu]]</small>]]

The largest photographic competition in the world took place throughout the month of September. This year, about [[Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014/Participating countries|40 countries participated]] in the hunting of monumental images! Not only harvested 300,000 pictures in the competition represent the best of the heritage of humanity, but the whole point of the [[w:Wiki Loves Monuments|Wiki Loves Monuments]] lies in the fact that the image bank is freely licensed and fully reusable by all.

The [[Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 winners#Canada|winners of the 2014 edition]] of the Wiki Loves Monuments in Canada are now known. Again this year a high rate of participation allowed the upload of about 1,500 photos and historical heritage sites in Canada. Elsewhere in the world, involving 40 countries allowed the upload of [[Commons:Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2014|300,000 images]] under free license. All these images are freely reusable by all, under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

After a national screening, participants Wiki Loves Monuments countries send the ten most beautiful images selected by the local juries, to access the second round, that is to be judged by members of the international jury.

The 2012 edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the [http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-6000/largest-photography-competition/largest photo competition] in the world with over 353 000 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

:<small>— [[w:User:Benoit Rochon|Benoit Rochon]], Project Manager, Wikimedia Canada.</small>

== Canadian Copyright Collection from the British Library ==

[[File:Dancing_pavilion_at_Bo-Lo,_Bois_Blanc_Island,_Detroit_River_(HS85-10-28621).jpg|thumb|The dancing pavilion at the Boblo Island Amusement Park, Ontario (1914). Financed by Henry Ford, this was the world's second largest dance hall at the time, holding up to 5,000 dancers. The music was provided by one of the world's largest orchestrions (pictured on the right): a 16 foot tall, 14 foot wide, self-playing orchestra with 419 pipes and percussion section.]]

July 1st is Canada Day, and Wikimedia UK and the British Library are today announcing the release of [[Commons:Commons:British Library/Picturing Canada|2,000 historic photographs of Canada]].

Since September 2012, we've been working to digitise a collection of historic Canadian photographs and release them onto Wikimedia Commons and into the public domain. The collection itself was acquired between 1895 and 1924 and consists of photographs supplied to support [[w:Legal deposit|copyright deposits]] by Canadian photographers between those years. This came about through an arcane piece of colonial law, known snappily as the [[w:Copyright law of Canada#Colonial copyright law|Colonial Copyright Law]], which sought to extend British copyright protection across the empire, while also ensuring the collection of published material from these same areas. In practice, the law was a failure; only a few territories ratified it and even fewer actually deposited materials. Until 1925, however, Canada did implement the law and the Ministry of Agriculture effectively administrated the collection of copyright deposits. A copy of every item was sent to Ottawa and to London, where it was archived by the British Museum and then neglected for decades.

Materials collected from Canada included printed books, sheet music, maps and, of course, photographs. While the photographs were seen as trivial and undervalued at the time, what can now be perceived through the collection is a broad and human view of Canada at a crucial point in its history; a thirty year period when the Confederation developed politically, economically and socially, while garnering an international reputation. The collection itself provides views on this changing nation, from Vancouver to Halifax, with many unknown camera workers alongside well-known figures such as [[w:F. W. Micklethwaite|Frank Micklethwaite]] or [[w:William Notman|William Notman]].

All of this combines to create a strange mix of photographic subjects. Photographs of soldiers leaving for World War I are filed alongside images of cute kittens and men wrestling bears; trains are depicted steaming across the nation while boats continue to ply the water-ways; major cities are shown rapidly growing, while new settlements make their first marks in the dirt; and Eastern European immigrants rub shoulders with the First Nations.

Since today (Monday) marks the 146th anniversary of [[w:Canadian Confederation|Canada’s Confederation]], it seemed an appropriate time to note the upload of the collection to Wikimedia Commons. There are currently just over 2,000 photographs uploaded, each with a duplicate full-resolution TIFF copy, with more to come in the following weeks. All the images are in the public domain, and are freely available for use and reuse - please, enjoy!

You can see more details on the [[Commons:Commons:British Library/Picturing Canada|collection on Wikimedia Commons]].

:<small>— Philip Hatfield (Curator, Canadian Collections, British Library) and [[w:User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] (former Wikipedian in Residence, British Library) Funding for the project was given by Wikimedia UK and by the British Library Eccles Centre for American Studies.</small>

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=== Who we are ===

Wikimedia Canada is a non-profit organization committed to the growth, development, and distribution of free educational material and media. It is the official Canadian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs many online projects, including Wikipedia, and has chapters in countries around the world. Feel free to register on the Wiki and partake in the discussions.

=== News ===
* December 2: [[WMFblog:2014/01/22/wiki-tuesday-at-bibliotheque-nationales-du-quebec/|Wiki Tuesday at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]]
* November: [[w:cr:Projet:Wikipetia_Atikamekw|Second project]] at the Otapi High School in Manawan, Quebec to write articles on the [[w:cr:Portal:Atikamekw|Wikipedia in Atikamekw]].
* October 18: [[WMFblog:2014/10/18/first-glam-collaboration-in-canada-with-banq/|First GLAM collaboration in Canada with BAnQ]]
* October: [[WMFblog:2014/10/08/international-francophone-contribution-month/|International Francophone Contribution Month]]
* September: [[Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Canada|Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Canada]]
* June: A [[w:cr:Projet:Wikipetia_Atikamekw|project]] is on-going in Otapi High School, Manawan, Quebec to develop the [[w:cr:Portal:Atikamekw|Wikipedia in Atikamekw]].

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=== Our mission ===

*To aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content without the payment of royalties.
*To collaborate with public and private Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums in making their holdings more broadly and freely available to those interested in an effort to preserve the heritage of Canada.
*To make use of, encourage the use of, and instruct people in the use of free and open source information resources; either electronic or printed for the advancement of education.
*To encourage the development and release of these materials in the languages of Canada including but not limited to English, French, and the First Nations' languages.
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