Fort Garry, Winnipeg
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Fort Garry, Winnipeg
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Record information Fort Garry, Winnipeg
Date:ca. 1848Reference:Accession number: 00035, 1969-004 X PICType of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2834226Date(s):ca. 1848Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:1 drawing / dessin : pencil and opaque white / crayon et blanc opaque on blue-green paper
Support 23.700 x 35.700 cmLanguage of material:no languageAdditional name(s):Additional information:General note:Fort Garry was established in 1822 as a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Winnipeg. Fort Garry served as the centre of fur trade within the Red River Colony. It was renamed Upper Fort Garry in 1835 to differentiate it from "the Lower Fort," or Lower Fort Garry, established in 1831. Upper Fort Garry was central to the administration of the HBC and the surrounding settlement. The Council of Assiniboia, the administrative and judicial body of the Red River Colony met at Upper Fort Garry. The fort was seized by Louis Riel and his Métis followers during the Red River Rebellion (Red River Resistance). The majority of the fort was demolished in 1881-1884.
"[Upper] Fort Garry, Red River Settlement, Winnipeg, Manitoba" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall)Attributions and conjectures:After a watercolour by Henry J. Warre entitled "Fort Garry," (1846) which is part of the Sir Henry James Warre Collection, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.Availability of other formats note:Colour transparency availableExhibitions note:Exhibition title: 150 Years of Art in Manitoba. Curators: Ferdinand Eckhart, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1970.05.01 - 1970.08.31, cat. no.: no. 204., A reproduction of this drawing was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01--, Exhibition Title: The Artist Was a Spy: Henry James Warre's Watercolors of the Oregon Country, 1845-1846. Curator: Wendy Haynes, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington; 2001.10.30 - 2002.02.03
Further Venue: Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon; 2002.02.23 - 2002.05.12
Further Venue: Amon Carter Museum, Ford Worth, Texas, 2002.06.09 - 2002.09.15Signatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed. Signed. Dated.Subject heading:Source:PrivateOther accession no.:00035
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No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.Item no. assigned by LAC [1969-004 X] 35[Consultation Open]Copy negative [19XX-XXX] C-001629[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1969-4-35
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