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From Canadian Intellectual Property Office - A Guide to Copyrights: Copyright Protection

Photographs
There are three possible terms of copyright protection for a photograph:

First, where the author is a natural person, the term of protection is the remainder of the calendar year in which the author dies, and for 50 years following the end of the calendar year.

Second, if the author of the photograph is a corporation in which the majority of voting shares are owned by a natural person who is the author of the photograph (e.g. a commissioned photograph), then the term of copyright protection is the remainder of the calendar year in which the author dies, and for 50 years following the end of the calendar year.

Third, if the author of the photograph is a corporation in which the majority of voting shares are not owned by a natural person who is the author of the photograph (e.g. a commissioned photograph), then the term of copyright protection is the remainder of the year of the making of the initial negative or plate from which the photograph was derived or, if there is no negative or plate, the remainder of the initial photograph, plus 50 years.