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Picture of people pushing a canoe off ice into a river
December 26, 2021

Canoe Race

Men shove a canoe into the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, to practice for a race that's part of the city's winter carnival. The carnival was the focus of a story in the January 1958 issue.
Photograph by Kathleen Revis, Nat Geo Image Collection

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