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Explore ten intriguing images from past federal elections.
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Election workers in Montréal hold metal ballot boxes, as they wait outside their local election office in 1953. (Credit: The Montreal Gazette, Library and Archives Canada, e011200968) 
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These soldiers in the Netherlands were among nearly 350,000 Canadian military members who voted while overseas during the Second World War. (Credit: Christopher J. Woods, Department of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, a160949) 
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A woman votes with her poodle on a leash in 1953. Today, only service animals are allowed in polling stations. (Credit: The Montreal Gazette, Library and Archives Canada, e011200970) 
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Workers in the 1950s prepare legal notices to announce a coming federal election. (Credit: Frank Royal/National Film Board of Canada, Photothèque, Library and Archives Canada, PA-169812) 
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Won Alexander Cumyou, 88, votes for the first time in 1949. As a Chinese-Canadian, he had previously been barred from voting. (Credit: University of British Columbia Libraries Special Collections, Won Alexander Cumyow fonds. BC 1848, 9) 
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The first computers arrive at Elections Canada in the 1980s. (Credit: Elections Canada) 
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An election worker rests while travelling to a northern community to deliver election supplies. (Credit: National Film Board of Canada) 
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A man sits amid a sea of bags filled with election ballots in the 1950s. (Credit: Elections Canada) 
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A woman exercises her democratic right to vote in this photo taken in the 1960s. (Credit: Reg Innell, Toronto Star Photo Archive) 
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Voting in a wheelchair was not easy in 1963, before Parliament passed laws to make polling stations accessible. (Credit: J. Marshall, National Film Board Collection, National Gallery of Canada) 
