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This series shows images of a department store with displays of Canadian-made clothing in the 1950s:

  1. A woman demonstrates how GWG clothing is made
  2. The fact that it is the Hudson's Bay Company store can be determined by use of a magnifying glass with the second photo
  3. GWG menswear as well as clothing by Christensen, another Edmonton-based garment manufacturing company, indicating that the store promotion was not limited to GWG clothing
  4. GWG children's wear