The Broken Ground Exhibition was initially conceived for audiences in Middle Europe without regard to the exhibition touring in North America. Increased Canadian interest however has generated touring possibilities after the exhibition returns from its European tour and inaugural Canadian opening in the Spring of 2005. Broken Ground consists of historical and contemporary Canadian photographs on the subject of people and the land. The exhibition encompasses descriptions of both a thematic and a survey exhibition, which perhaps dilutes purist thinking for one or the other. Twenty-seven historical exhibition photographs are on loan from the National Archives of Canada. The photographs present rich but seldom seen images from Canada's past and confront viewers with a mythically stereotyped Canada of endless landscape inhabited by aboriginal peoples and settlers. The contemporary photographs from six well-known Canadian photographers who include David Hlynsky, Thaddeus Holownia, Rafael Goldchain, Serge Clément, Brenda Pelkey and Andrew Danson Danushevsky present work in landscape and people which challenge the stereotyped view. The contemporary photographs beyond the theme present diverse artistic visions from each photographer working with landscape and people.