pt. ONE Visibly Ordered: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Museums and the Colonial Order of Things -- 1. A Picture of Quebec: Artifacts of Civilization -- 2. A Laboratory of Learning: The Educational Museum, Visual Culture, and Citizenship in Canada West -- 3. Whose Lessons? Subjects of the Colonial Archive -- pt. TWO Visibly Public: Spectacularizing Social Identities in Victorian Canada -- 4. Staging a Siege: Or, the Cultural Politics of Re-Producing Modern History -- 5. Bilingual Memories: A Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee in Quebec City, 1897 -- 6. "The Body Corporate Gets a Wriggle On": The Civic Parade in Montreal, 1897 -- pt. THREE Visibly Related: Small Group Portraiture and the Display of the Social Self -- 7. "Born with a Silver Spoon and Fork": Photographic Testimonies of Acculturation, Montreal, 1873 -- 8. The Family Portrait: Portrait of the Artist as a Successful Man -- 9. Visual Rhetoric: Storytelling, History, and Identity in a Portrait of Three Friends