SingingBaba's video: 34 Colourised Photos That Make Canadian History Come To Life

Forget what you know. You've never seen Canadian history like this before. Mark Truelove meticulously colourised black and white photos from our past. Basic portraits can take him several hours and more complex images can occupy him for much, much longer -- think days. Truelove, who lives in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, strives to ensure he uses accurate colour references for everything from sports uniforms to advertisements. But he says he's always happy to correct something if someone spots an error. 01_Missie McGrath in Montreal in 1886 02_Arch at Stanley Park entrance around 1890 03_Pioneers pose in front of the Corrigan Hotel in Hope, B.C. around 1900 04_An old voyageur in 1901 05_A Cree man in Maple Creek, Sask. in 1903 06_Sir Wilfrid Laurier, seventh prime minister of Canada, in 1906 07_Future prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King with his parents in Markham, Ont. around 1910 08_Vancouver legend Joe Fortes in front of his cottage around 1910 09_Vancouver ice hockey team in 1914 10_A family in a Toronto slum in 1914 11_Vancouver firefighters in 1915 12_Squidge, regimental pet for the Victoria Rifles, in 1915 13_Victoria Cross recipient Michael James O'Rourke in 1918 14_Fun in the snow on Grouse Mountain in 1929 15_Lorne Carr of the Vancouver Lions in 1930 16_Pilot in Richmond, B.C. around 1930 17_Morrow’s Coal and Ice Company on Main Street, Vancouver in 1931 18_Grey Owl with a baby beaver in 1931 19_Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons, in 1934 20_Babe Ruth after a visit to Vancouver in 1934 21_Dai Nippon Tokyo Baseball Club in Vancouver in 1935 22_A CBC radio broadcast in the 1940s 23_A streetcar accident in Vancouver in the 1940s 24_Cafe Casa Loma in Vancouver in the 1940s 25_A man bathes during the voyage of the St. Roch through the Northwest Passage in 1942 26_Actress Gloria Swanson pitches war bonds in Toronto around 1942 27_Demonstration of gas masks for children in 1943 28_Two men with a stewardess in front of a Trans-Canada Airlines plane in 1943 29_Russian Doukhobor men and women in a police wagon in 1944 30_VJ Day celebrations in Vancouver's Chinatown in 1945 31_Irene Ayers, Miss Toronto 1946, in a Toronto transit uniform 32_Sitting on a torpedo to promote the movie 'Meet the Navy' in 1946 33_Edmonton quarterback Don Getty drinks from the Grey Cup in 1956 34_Rural Saskatchewan Ukrainian Family in 1958