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People of the Watershed is comprised of dozens of scans of photographs taken from original 35-millimetre Kodachrome colour slides. The photos were taken by John Macfie, a longtime trapline manager for the then-Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, of life in many northern First Nations where he lived and worked. The exhibit by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection was curated by Paul Seesequasis, a Willow Cree journalist and photographic curator. 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