2-716-605 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Colonial Troops for South Africa, 1900: Canadian Artillery entraining at Ottawa', (1901). Soldiers climbing onto flat-bed railway wagons carrying heavy artillery at Ottawa in Canada. Over 7,000 Canadian soldiers and support personnel were involved in the Second Boer War (October 1899-May 1902). From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]