Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba Archives / Collections and Fonds

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Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Date:

n.d.

Reference:

R13133-347-1-E, Volume number: 36

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2933440

Date(s):

n.d.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 print : coloured lithograph ; 28.3 x 43.3 cm (image).

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

Colour lithograph of unknown provenance, by Ottawa-based lithographer A. Mortimer. Image depicts a view of Old Fort Garry in Winnipeg, with an H.B.C. flag flying. There is a teepee on the left, and several people with ox-carts in a field in the centre.

Additional name(s):

Artist: Kemp, G. active 1875

Lithographer: Mortimer, Alexander active 1880-1885

Additional information:

General note:

By G. Kemp, litho. by A. Mortimer.

Item has the number 2-D-12 on the verso, indicating that it used to be framed.
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.
The Red River cart was first used by the Métis to carry meat from the buffalo hunt and in farm work. Later, they would be used in brigades to transport goods over long distances.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Recto, l.l.: A. Mortimer, Lith. Ottawa.
Recto, l.c.: Old Fort Garry. / (Winnipeg, Manitoba.) / Demolished in 1881.
Recto, l.r., within image: G. Kemp

Related material:

For other copies of this print, see the Winkworth and Coverdale collections.

Subject heading:

Winnipeg (Man.)

SUBJ. - Architecture : Depicting Old Fort Garry

MAN. - FORT GARRY - UPPER

Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

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Volume [R13133]

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36 Item no. assigned by LAC 333

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-333
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