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9 pounder RML gun during the Battle of Fish Creek, 24 April 1885

Caption: 9 pounder RML gun during the Battle of Fish Creek, 24 April 1885

This photograph of a gun from A Battery, Regiment of Canadian Artillery was taken during the fighting at Fish Creek on 24 April 1885. Captain James Peters of A Battery was an amateur photographer who took his camera to the North-West and recorded the possibly the first photographs in history of a battle in progress. (Library and Archives Canada, C-003461)