Canada and The Times: The Faraway Nearby – The New York Times

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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.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/canada-and-the-times-the-faraway-nearby/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

“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.