During one of my first visits to The New York Times’s “morgue” — the archive of photographs, negatives, clippings and more — I asked whether we had a file of pictures from Canada. The answer: Not really. Many of our photos of Canada and Canadians had been sold to a collector.

As a Canadian with an interest in pictures from the past, I was disappointed.

Recently, though, those pictures resurfaced and a selection is on display in The Faraway Nearby, an exhibition at the Ryerson Image Center in Toronto. Chris Bratty, the collector, donated the nearly 25,000 Times images about Canada to Ryerson.

This week, the journalist and photographer Laurence Butet-Roch wrote in Lens, The Times’s photography blog, that the collection contains expected tropes: “Canada as a winter wonderland; as a safe, polite neighbor who reveres hockey.” But, she added, there are also images that challenge those notions.

Over the next couple of days, we’re sharing a selection of these photos on @nytarchives, an Instagram feed I edit that celebrates the rich visual history of The Times. In reading one old article connected to the images, I learned about the two women who scaled Mount Robson in British Columbia, pictured above. The Times reported in 1924 that they were “the first of their sex to accomplish the feat.”

I read about Canadians visiting New York: the Dionne quintuplets, “identically attired” on their first visit in 1950, and a 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky. During a visit in 1988, Robertson Davies was asked what distinguishes a Canadian novel from American or British ones. “Ah, that is a very tricky question,” he answered. “What used to be called a Canadian novel was a kind of prairie frontier story, but it was phony.”

Throughout the Thanksgiving holiday, @nytarchives is focused on Canada. But our archive traverses the globe. Follow us to see what stories we’re rediscovering.