The ''Canadian Illustrated News'' was a weekly

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published in

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from 1869 to 1883. It was published by George Desbarats. The magazine was notable for being the first in the world to consistently produce photographs at a successful rate. This was possible with the financial backing of George Desbarats, as well as the invention of half-tone

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William Leggo William Augustus Leggo (25 January 1830 – 21 July 1915) was a Canadian inventor, engraver and businessperson. He is noted for co-inventing the half-tone engraver with George-Édouard Desbarats. He had several patents to his name, includin ...

. The Canadian federal MP Fabien Vanasse was one of the notable journalists of the publication. More than 15,000 illustrations were published during the magazine's 14 years of existence, before it stopped publication as it accumulated losses. The magazine had a

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counterpart also published by Desbarats called ''L'Opinion publique'', that published many times the English magazine's illustrations and many of its articles translated into French. Many notable prints in ''Canadian Illustrated News'' are kept in various museums. For example, a print by

Henri Julien Henri Julien, baptised Octave-Henri Julien (14 May 1852 – 17 September 1908), was a Québécois artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the '' Canadian Illustrated News'' and for his political cartoons in the '' Montreal Daily ...

of the

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Uniform of Cadets, is in the

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. A print by Arthur William Moore (1863–1909), a landscape artist, of the

Kingston, Ontario "The Canadian Military College, From the Walls of Fort Henry c. 17 June 1876" is in the

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Notable contributors

Alexander Somerville Alexander Somerville (15 March 1811 – 17 June 1885) was a British Radical journalist and soldier.Joseph Hamburger,Somerville, Alexander (1811–1885), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online ed ...

John Henry Walker John Henry Walker (1831–1899), a pioneer Canadian engraver and illustrator, was from County Antrim in Northern Ireland and as a young boy emigrated in 1842 to Canada with his family, settling in Toronto, Upper Canada. In 1845 he was apprent ...

* William Armstrong * Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon * Ellen Kyle Noel

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