Colonel William Rhodes brings his 83-year-old guide, François Gros-Louis to Notman’s studio with him, and together they create a series of images depicting caribou hunting, moose hunting and trapping.

These are full-scale productions, with art direction of a high order. What François Gros-Louis, who has spent his long life trapping and hunting for a living, thinks of the whole business goes unrecorded.

This is a great Notman photograph: “The Caribou Hunters” in 1866, sitting around a campfire, in the studio, posing as if they’re in the out-of-doors, lit by a magnesium flare, stand-in for the campfire, and an audience around the world would have been looking at pictures like this to see Canada, that last great frontier in the new world. Caribou hunting: what a treat.