The Beaver, a Canadian history magazine, features Canada's top ten historic photographs in its latest issue.   The magazine is published by Canada's National History Society and is on shelves across the country.

Among the ten photographs are images of Terry Fox silhouetted by a police car's headlights, Paul Henderson's triumphant celebration in 1972, the last spike in the railway that uniting the country, and a youthful soldier standing nose-to-nose with a Mohawk warrior at Oka.  The magazine also tells the stories of the photographers, their subjects, and the context in which the photo was taken.

According to Mark Reid, editor in chief of The Beaver, photography is one of the most meaningful ways to connect Canadians to their history.  "The beautiful thing and magical thing about these photographs is that there's such a visceral and emotional quality to photographs, that you can see a photograph and it can take you back to a time and a place and a memory," he says.

Go to www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp to visit The Beaver online.