Canada and The Times: The Faraway Nearby
A Canadian exhibit of New York Times photos shows how one country covers another, from the usual tropes to surprises.
“We worry when you look hard at us, but we are also touchy about being overlooked,” then-Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson of Canada told a group of American students in 1963. The quote, reprinted in the June 10th issue of The New York Times of that year, still rings true today, especially as a Canadian like myself goes through thousands of images of Canada from the newspaper’s archives.