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Mackay's Mountain near Fort William. L. Superior

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ca. 1820

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Box number: 2001243733

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2956896

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John Jeremiah Bigsby fonds

Mackay's Mountain near Fort William. L. Superior
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Date(s):

ca. 1820

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1 drawing : pen and ink on wove paper

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This item is listed in artist 705-302 as Bigsby I-27., The image is from a grangerized volume of Bigsby's 1850 publication The Shoe and Canoe, to which Bigsby added or inserted drawings, maps, and prints as well as many annotations.

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Artist: Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881

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In John J. Bigsby's book, "The Shoe and Canoe, or, Pictures of Travel in the Canadas...," (London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, vol. 2), the drawing is glued down on one of seven folios inserted into the grangerized volume before the title page. This work is glued down to folio 7 recto. On folio 7 verso there are notes about the geology of northwestern Ontario and other subjects.
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 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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Toronto Public Library: Indigenous Pathways 8/18/2018 - 10/31/2018

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Inscription: inscribed, recto, in ink, below image: McKay's Mountain near Fort William, L. Superior. / vide Essays. cover.
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Ontario

landscape
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Private

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1939-447 PIC
00045
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on use for publication or reproduction. Material must be examined under the supervision of an art archivist.

Box [1939-447]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2001243733 Item no. assigned by LAC 45

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00045] C-011648

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-447-45
Copyright: Expired

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