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Geraldine Moodie, photographer of the North-West and North

Inuit women and children at Fullerton (Qatiktalik), Nunavut, photographed by Geraldine Moodie in 1906.
Inuit women and children at Fullerton (Qatiktalik), Nunavut, photographed by Geraldine Moodie in 1906. Group of Esquimaux women and children Fullerton, 1906 (HS85-10-18546) (cropped) · Geraldine Moodie · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Geraldine Moodie (1854–1945), an entrepreneur in a male-dominated field, owned and operated at least three commercial photography studios. As the wife of a North-West Mounted Police officer she had unprecedented access to Indigenous communities, and her photographs are valued historical records of First Nations and Inuit lifeways around 1900.

Scope & context

Her work and its historical value as recognized in her designation, which also notes the privileged and constructed nature of her portraits.

Sources behind this record

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Geraldine Moodie (1854-1945) National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada

Historical importance; plaque text