Collection search - Fort William (Fort Kaministiguia), North-West Company, 1805

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Fort William (Fort Kaministiguia), North-West Company, 1805

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Date:

1946-1961

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Box number: BK-182

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2925031

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Lloyd Scott fonds

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Fort William (Fort Kaministiguia), North-West Company, 1805
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Date(s):

1946-1961

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pencil
Support 28.000 x 21.600 cm

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no language

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This sketchbook contains 132 sketches pertaining to 18th and 19th century uniforms and historical locations in Canada. Many of the 19th century sketches are done first hand unlike most of the 18th century sketches which are based on reproductions in reference books., Excellent reference for the analysis of Scott's completed work., See isn: 91308 to 91440., Accession No. for Sketchbook XVII - 1973-8-758 to 1973-8-889.

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Artist: Scott, Lloyd, 1911-1968

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Sketchbook: Sketchbook XVII
Fort William and Grand Portage were the two starting points for the canoe route westward from the Great Lakes.
The French had a series of forts in the Thunder Bay area prior to 1759 but they were closed with British control. The North West Company (NW Co.) re-established the fur trade in the area with a fort at Grand Portage (Minnesota). The fort would act as a midway transshipment (break-in-bulk) point between the company's inland posts and Montreal. The 1794 Jay Treaty acknowledged American control of the Grand Portage area. In 1803, the NW Co. moved to a new post on the Kaministiquia River. It was named Fort William after William McGillivray. With the 1821 union of the NW Co. with the Hudson's Bay Company, most of Fort William's trade shifted to York Factory on Hudson Bay.
The North West Company's employees were mostly French-Canadians and Métis.

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SUBJ. - Architecture : Fort - William (Kaministiguia), North-West Company 1805

Architecture
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Private

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00761
1973-008 X PIC
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1973-008]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-182 Item no. assigned by LAC 761

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1973-8-761 From Miss Lulu Dodd, Lakeview Manor, Beaverton, Ontario, through Mr. Munroe Scott, Manotick, Ontario.
Copyright: Expired

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