Collection search - Hudson's Bay Company and Northwest Company Forts at Ìle-à-la-Crosse

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Hudson's Bay Company and Northwest Company Forts at Ìle-à-la-Crosse

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Date:

28 February 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837997

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Hudson's Bay Company and Northwest Company Forts at Ìle-à-la-Crosse
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Date(s):

28 February 1820.

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Place:

Near Île-à-la-Crosse in present-day Saskatchewan:

Place of creation:

Saskatchewan

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper.
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Watercolour of the fort at Île-à-la-Crosse, with frozen lake in background.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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General note:

Île-à-la-Crosse is the second oldest community in Saskatchewan. Its residents are predominantly Métis. Île-à-la-Crosse was the administrative centre of the English River District of the Hudson's Bay Company and a key supply depot during the latter part of the 18th century and most of the 19th century. In 1846 a Roman Catholic mission was established at Île-à-la-Crosse.

Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 40 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the single page before conservation is available as well as of the double page spread, folio 39 verso and 40 recto together (C-141429 and C-141430). This page has also been copied as C-141574; C-145919 -- C-145920.

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Overland to the Arctic with Franklin/En route vers l'arctique avec Sir John Franklin (reproductions/réproductions). Curators: Eva Major-Marothy, National Archives of Canada. Further venue: Montreal, Hoechst and Celanese HQ.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription, located beneath image on folio 39 verso, in black brushpoint: "Hudsons Bay Coy Fort and the West angle of the N W / with Isle à la Cross Lake, taken from the South / East - Feby 28th 1820 GB-"; (Complete transcription)

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Saskatchewan

Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.40R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.40R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141430;

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C-141574;

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C-145919--C-145920;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.40R. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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