page_title: Rosemary Gilliat
section_title: Photographic career in Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Rosemary Gilliat / Biography / Photographic career in Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: James Huston, Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut, 1960 Depicted person&#58; &#32;James Archibald Houston&#32;– Canadian artist, designer, children's writer See his biography on the Canadian Encyclopedia.
context_page_description: Rosemary Gilliat was a photojournalist who traveled across Canada, documenting people and events for publications such as Weekend magazine and the National Film Board of Canada.
context_section_description: Gilliat worked primarily as a freelance photographer, between the years 1953 and 1964. Her first assignment that required her to leave Ottawa was for the Husdon's Bay Company's magazine The Beaver, for which she travelled to Dawson City, Yukon in 1953. During her career she also put photo stories together for Weekend magazine, Star Weekly (a photo insert for the Toronto Star), Canadian Geographic and Macleans, and also completed assignments for several government departments, including the Department of Northern Affairs and the National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division. She documented such topics and locations as: James Houston and the Eskimo Art Co-op; modern Inuit life; Trans Canada Highway; the St. Lawrence Seaway (1954); Seagrams; Neuchâtel Junior College (1956); and the Calgary Stampede. Gilliat's photographic career was curtailed by ill-health in 1963, when she developed a problem with her inner-ear.
  Her archive of professional and personal work was acquired by Library and Archives Canada in 2008.
caption: James Houston preparing a mount for an Inuit print, in Cape Dorset, photographed by Rosemary Gilliat Eaton, 1960.
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