In January, 1954, Canada’s Macleans Magazine ran a spread of photographs they commissioned for “A Newfoundland Portrait Gallery.”

“In the faces of the people, Karsh captures the rugged character of the land… Yousuf Karsh, long accustomed to photographing character under studio lights, photographs it in the chill daylight of a Newfoundland morning. These portraits were taken at the iron mines on Bell Island and on the docks and wharves around the town where fishermen from Push-and-be-Damned mingle with bearded sailors who come from Lisbon to fish the Grand Banks.”

“Push and Be Damned Rapids” is the name for rapids on the Southwest Miramichi River, one of the many tributaries of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada.