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Harold Johnston
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A life in photographs
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them" (George Eliot)

Harold H. Johnston - b. 1930 N. Ireland; d. 1985 British Columbia, Canada.
People photography, mainly Western Canada
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Rocker: Mar 1975, Dec 1980

#photography #film #bw #monochrome #exposure #naturallight #35mm #Pentax #mémère #portrait #candid #unposed #portraitphotography #bwphotography #filmphotography
January 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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December 1968: toboganning.

#photography #film #bw #monochrome #Pentax #Spotmatic #snow #winter #toboggan #Burnaby #BC #Canada
January 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Harold, 1955.

#photography #portrait #posed #film #35mm #filmphotography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #winter #snow #portraitphotography #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada #midcentury
January 12, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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March 1967: afternoon coffee.

#photography #portrait #candid #unposed #sunlight #lighting #backlit #kitchen #table #coffee #family #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #filmphotography #portraitphotography #film #35mm
Three people - younger woman, older woman and older man -at kitchen table chatting. A bilingual calendar on the wall reads Mars/March 1967.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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July 1967: Horseshoe Bay.

#photography #panorama #film #KMZ #35mm #playground #horseshoebay #bwphotography #filmphotography #panoramicphotography #landscape #scenic #bay #westvan #Vancouver #BC #Canada
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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May 1967: Cloverdale rodeo parade.

#photography #film #panorama #bw #monochrome #developing #rodeo #horse #parade #spectactors #KMZ #35mm #Surrey #BC #Canada
January 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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May 1969: Plasterers' union meeting.

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #exposure #interior #developing #printing #scanning #labour #labor #workers #trades #tradeunion #meeting #union #Vancouver #BC #Canada.
About a dozen men grouped around a table in an office, lit by a window at the far side of the room.
January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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June 1970: picketing Safeway Inc in support of American migrant farmworkers with the local priest.

#photography #bw #monochrome #history #protest #cesarchavez #left #politics #civilrights #farmworkers #labour #labor #TheHeights #BurnabyHeights #Burnaby #BC #Canada
Three people wearing placards 'Safeway unfair to Grapeworkers (in rather psychedelic script) near entrance to a supermarket.
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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May 1974: more of fine letterpress printer/typographer Wil Hudson at Kinngait, Nunavut (then known as Cape Dorset, NWT).

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #developing #printing #history #cooperative #art #indigenous #printing #carving #letterpress #arctic #northern #Canada #Nunavut #1970s
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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May 1974: Print shop at the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Ltd at Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories.

#photography #bw #film #monochrome #history #Inuit #Cooperative #WilHudson #typographer #printer #BaffinIsland #CapeDorset #NWT #Nunavut #Canada
January 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Simon Fraser University, October 1966

#photography #SFU #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #architecture #opening #panorama
Two children in foreground looking at the newly opened university campus . wide-angle panoramic view of SFU campus and the Academic Quadrangle.
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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1958: kitchen play.

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #mediumformat #yashica #tlr #1950s #midcentury #fashion #toddler #play #Burnaby #WillingdonHeights #BC #Canada
Two small boys playing in a 1950s kitchen with stove and fridge visible upposite an open low shelf and counter with pots.
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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December 1956 and 1966: Christmas tree and presents.

#photography #film #slide #1950s #midcentury #colour #filmphotography #WillingdonHeights #Burnaby #BC #Canada
Sparse Christmas tree and decorations, wrapped presents and baby in bassinet. Boy bending to look at unwrapped presents on sofa - crystal radio set, vintage Rolls Royce model car, dynamo light for bicycle.
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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1920s: relatives at the large log house built by Delphis Coulombe (1874-1959) and wife Marie-Claire Gagné (1875-1960) after their immigration from Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Québec to the francophone community of Legal in what was then the Alberta District of the Northwest Territories, in 1901.
Over a dozen people on the porch of a large log house, with several horses and a wagon near them, on a snowy day with leaden skies. #photography #bw #monochrome #history #Alberta #Legal #Canada #20C #bwphotography #filmphotography #winter #snow #horses #logcabin #carriage
December 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Cars in snow: 1959, 1966, 1982.

#photography #film #filmphotography #car #snow #winter #WillingdonHeights #Burnaby #BC #Canada
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Snow: 1959, 1965, 1968, 1976

#photography #film #filmphotography #portrait #unposed #35mm #snow #winter #bw #monochrome #WillingdonHeights #Burnaby #BC #Canada
Small boy using small shovel to clear sidewalk of snow with his mother. Two girls standing in knee-deep snow. Boy and girl building snowman. Two people walking down a suburban street covered in snow.
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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July 1952: Harold's co-immigrant friends, Timmins, Ontario.

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #portrait #posed #midcentury #1950s #cinema #movies #ckgb #redskelton #timmins #ontario #canada
Two men in suits - one wearing tie, the other open-necked - pose in front of a cinema showing a Red Skelton movie, and with the neon letters CKGB advertising the local radio station.
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Dec 1956: Yolande.

#photography #colour #slide #film #35mm #portrait #unposed #filmphotography #portraitphotography #midcentury #1950s #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada
Young woman sitting in patterned soft chair, wearing plaid dress.
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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May 1965: Jack Golightly, friend and coworker.

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #portrait #posed #portraitphotography #bwphotography #Pentax
Middle-aged, high-hairlined man in white shirt, arms crossed over the back of a chair, looking to the right.
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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May 1969: Ray Pollard, our plumber.

#photography #bw #monochrome #portrait #unposed #film #35m #plumbing #plumber #Burnaby #BC #Canada #portraitphotography #bwphotography
Man on stepladder, cigarette in mouth, repairing a waste pipe in the corner of a house.
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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1954-5: at work.

#photography #bw #monochrome #portrait #unposed #workplace #work #1950s #midcentury #bwphotography #filmphotography #film #35mm #developing #portraitphotography #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada
Young woman at work behind desk, with papers, day planner and other objects on the desk.
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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July 1950: Holiday at Butlin's, Eire.

#photography #bw #monochrome #portrait #film #35mm #filmphotography #portraitphotography #bwphotography
Man with florid tie on a walkway. Three men in bathing trunks on a diving board.
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Holiday breakfast, July 1969 and July 1984.

#photography #film #35mm #bw #monochrome #colour #filmphotography #family #bwphotography #portrait #unposed #portraitphotography
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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1948: grandfather Henry McDowell

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #filmphotography #bwphotography #family #portrait #portraitphotography #posed #maghera #northern #ireland
Older man, standing with cane and wearing hat, in front of multi-pane house window.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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1933 and 1938: family.

#photography #bw #monochrome #portrait #bwphotography #portraitphotography #family #parents #siblings #posed #candid #ballymena #northern #ireland
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM