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Manuscript page with lengths of rivers and list of views

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Date:

23 October 1819.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2962866

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Manuscript page with lengths of rivers and list of views
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Date(s):

23 October 1819.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 p.

Language of material:

no language

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Manuscript page with lengths of rivers and list of views written with brown ink on wove paper. Measurements of lengths of rivers are also inscribed on this folio

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Author: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 16 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available: C-141383; C-145847 -- C-145848

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: from top down: "Lengths of the Rivers; Hayes river; Steel do; Hill; Swampy Lake; Lower Jack River; Knee Lake; Trout river; Holey Lake; River Weparaupamis; Windy Lake to Painted Stone; River Echimamamis; Hairy Lake and Blackwater; Tea river; Little & Great Playgreen lakes and Jack river; Lake Winnipeg; River Saskachawan; The courses are not correct for Normal; View of Carlton house (Plains; of Isle à la Cross lake and HBC fort; of encampment - [illegible]; of Portage la loche; of Buffalo Pound and Encampment and hunt; Stone & Chipewyans Indian with implements; Track of Route- etc;" (Partial transcription)

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Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.16R
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[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restriction. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.16R

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Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-141383;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-145847--C-145848;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.16R 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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