There are pictures of cities going up (railway tunnels are bored, streetcar tracks are laid, buildings are erected) as that rural country becomes more connected and urban. It was not so long ago that crowds were an unusual sight in a mostly rural country, and the pictures reflect that excitement. There are a lot of pictures of crowds in this selection, which has been culled from the millions of images Globe photojournalists have taken over the past 100 years. If you string them together and look at them long enough, patterns start to emerge. An archive like this – a century, as of this month, of photographs taken by Globe and Mail staff photographers – thereby becomes a succession of stopped moments. They freeze a moment of the present so that the moment can be examined more closely in the future.
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