Canada's most famous photos

As a US American, I'm amused that the US photos are thrown in as an appetizer for the Canadian ones. I learned quite a bit about Canadian history. Thanks.

JJ, those weren't soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Those were United States Marines.

Yes, it matters.

When you live in canada but you never see any of the photo he showed

Terry Fox's marathon are also very iconic photos in Canada.

Whats with the shade at kelly o brians

that boy looks like joe biden

im a vancouverite...ive only seen 3 of these

The first iconic "Canadian" photo to come to my mind is, ironically, Karsh's portrait of Winston Churchill.

The photo of the steel workers eating lunch on a beam above New York is the first photo of the USA that comes to my mind.

Really, the only photo I recognize is the last one, the most boring one. I've seen the spike photo but only in text books and it's not very iconic, I've seen a couple summit series goal photos, so this one doesn't stick out. My pic for most iconic Canadian photo isn't a single photo but about 1200 different photos of the same damn mountains at Moraine Lake in Banff. So iconic that as you drive by on the TransCanada highway they just jump out at you, so iconic that it is the scene that represents all of Canada as a picture to the rest of the world....if only that was true....

As a student at Kent State University, the school famous for getting invaded by the national guard during the height of the Vietnam protests, it was always the photo of Mary Ann Vecchio screaming over the body of Jeffrey Miller for me. That stretch of pavement has been reproduced in countless american history textbooks and I walk by it literally every day to go to class

Surprised face to face from the oka crisis or Sidney Crosby’s golden goal are not included here

The flag raising at Iwo Jima actually has a pretty sad story that goes with it that not many people know, one of the Marines in the photo is a man by the name of Ira Hayes, he was a native from Arizona, after the war he was badly mistreated and became an alcoholic, ended up dying in a ditch from alcohol poisoning at the age of only 32, he was pretty much forgotten until a song was written about him, Johnny Cash ended up recording it and it went to number 3 on the billboard bringing him the respect he deserved although it had been nearly 10 years since his death.

id say the picture of the canadian soldier and the oka warrior staring each other down should have made this list

The Summit Series is so damn anime.

A good example I think of a fading sports memory is anything Michael Jordan, despite not being as old. His FT line dunk (source of the air Jordan logo) or the jumping fist pump are the two most iconic still images of his career. He made the sport hugely popular and for the first time basketball viewership overtook baseball..

Because LeBron, the entire current generation of basketball fanatics have little to no connection to Jordan. Meaning there’s a huge nba fan base 40-60 but the biggest cross sections are the 30 and unders. “MJ is the GOAT” is increasingly considered an “old head take” much in the vein of “Hendrix is the greatest guitar player ever”

It would be interesting to do famous interview quotes in a country's history. For Canada I can think of three of the top of my head. First is Phil Esposito's interview at the summit series when the Canadian fans were booing them after they lost game two or three. Then there's PE Trudeau "Just watch me". Lastly hayley wickenheiser at the Salt Lake City olympics ranting at the American team "I'd like to know if they'd like us to sign it!"

For New Zealand:
Dame Whina Cooper & Moko on the Māori Land March
NZ winning the 1st rugby world cup
(One with the most personal significance to me) two shellshocked men sitting with with the body of a man lying on a bench between them, covered in blood and concrete dust, 2011 christchurch earthquake
Jacinta Ardern embracing a muslim woman, 2019 mosque terror attack
Most recently, just ashley bloomfield being on a yellow and white podium

Damn as a Canadian I did not know any of those pictures 😳

All of the photos chosen that are iconic to America's history feel very concentrated around the war, and honestly, there could be a few photos that count as iconic that are more recent.

I think The Falling Man from 2001 is a good example, and maybe the Kent State Shooting photo by John Filo could be another. They'd be good choices to balance out the happy, positive photos listed in the video.

Oka Crisis stare down photo was quite popular a few years ago I'd say.

Croatia: Franjo Tudjman kisses the croatian flag in the Croatia war

Surely the railroad was not a "quickly outdated" form of transportation. The Trans-Canada Highway didn't get built for more than 50 years. And rail is still important!

Other iconic U.S. photos: the Kent State Massacre photo, where the student kneels, crying, over the body of a fallen student, and the photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby.

The U.S. has its own transcontinental railway photo, of course, the driving of the Gold Spike that completed the linking of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869--that photo once was in most textbooks, etc. But historical knowledge in the U.S. is so weak, I think it's been crowded out of "iconic" status but more recent events. And while many figures of the Civil War are definitely iconic (Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Lee), I don't think any single photo reaches that status. There are many portraits of Lincoln, etc. And there was no photo taken of Lee signing the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in the McLean parlor, so the extremely famous depiction of the event is a 1965 painting.

I'm not sure you would be as familiar with it, as it involves a Toronto Basketball team, but a moment in the Raptors playoff run to the championship in 2019 is incredibly iconic.

The specific moment is when Kawhi Leonard shoots a game-winner that bounced FOUR times before rolling in to send the Raptors to the Eastern Conference Finals.

In that moment, you can see the entire stadium, fans, players, etc. watching the shot. Kawhi Leonard is crouched to the side, looking at it, it's like time slowed down, before this eruption afterwards.

I don't recognize any of these photos in the whole video

No terry fox 🤔

I'm israeli and the photos of soldiers with tears in their eyes and the rabbi with the torah scroll and shofar (rams horn u blow like an instrument) at the western wall the second holiest site in Judaism after it falling back into jewish hands for the first time in 2000 years is iconic

What about Kirk and trevor after nyr won the cup

United Kingdom
The Greatest Photograph
of our Greatest Icon, Winston Churchill
is, of course...

A Canadian photograph, taken by Canada's greatest photographer, Karsh, in Ottawa, Canada's capital.

Hard to believe we had a terrorist group bombing shit willy nilly here in Canada.

Another one of the most famous American photos is "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange. It's widely considered to be the quintessential photograph of America during the Great Depression and appears in nearly every American history textbook. Also some of the photos from the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Summit Series ain't got shit on the Miracle On Ice.

I think its funny that one of the most iconic Canadian photos is a recreation of America's transcontinental railroad almost 20 years prior.

The Miracle on Ice in the USA has that sort of feel. Beating the Soviets in 1980 in Hockey is beginning to have a Boomer nostalgia as well

We English still don’t shut up about 1966 but I can’t think of a pic

Queen Elizabeth’s “green outfit”??

"Ann Arbor woman protects klansman" is also pretty iconic. "Kent state shooting" too, for other major American ones.

I was present on Parliament Hill in 1982 we when the Consitution was signed. It rained and only a few thousand people were there. The CBC hired some notable Canadians to be there so they could be interviewed.

liked photo of youngest who kissed each other by celebrating victory...

I was surprised that Terry Fox picture did not make the cut. There are several statues based on it around the world.

I'VE BEEN TO THE TOWN WITH THAT BIG HENDERSON MURAL! LUCKNOW

For the US I would replace the Marilyn Monroe or lunch break picture with picture of the great depression photo of a migrant mother. It is just so much more powerful and is in every single American history textbook in the Great Depression section. I had to look up what the significance of the lunch break image was. Another one is that one photo of the black girl in sunglasses being screamed at. She was one of the Little Rock nine and I think that photo has become symbolic of integration. There are so many civil rights photos that there isn’t one that rises above the rest. Although for integration I think that one is pretty representative.

This video has only been up for an hour, but I'm already finding myself deeply moved by some of the incredible historic photos you guys are sharing. Photos have their problems, of course, but they can still be extremely powerful symbols of what people felt to be the truth of the moment they were living.