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Stone Fort, Red River Settlement, 1870

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Date:

ca. 1870.

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R13281-5-1-E, Volume number: 2

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Art

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Item ID number:

3968667

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P.M. O'Leary Collection

Stone Fort, Red River Settlement, 1870
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Date(s):

ca. 1870.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 wood engraving : newspaper clipping
1 watercolour : monochrome grey wash with pen and black ink and charcoal over pencil on wove paper laid down onto cardboard ; 21 x 27.4 cm (image).

Language of material:

English

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Image depicts a view of the stone fort at the Red River settlement in Manitoba, with a horse and sleigh in the foreground.
Drawing is after the wood engraving "Stone Fort, Red River Settlement" which appeared in the "Illustrated London News" in 1870. Clipping is attached to the mount.
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Artist: O'Leary, P.M. active 1853-1882

Publisher: Illustrated London News
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Acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 1/5/20, written on the verso.
Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, 32 km (20 mi) north of the original Fort Garry (often called Upper Fort Garry). The upper fort is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Lower Fort Garry site was chosen because of its high ground and location below the St. Andrew's Rapids, eliminating the need for a portage of heavy fur packs and York boats.
The Lower Fort's main purpose was to supply the Red River settlement and the surrounding Anishinaabe, Cree, Métis, and European (mostly Orkney Scot) populations. The fort traded manufactured goods to the farmers and hunters for food that would provision the Company's northern treks. In 1870, when the Red River Rebellion (Red River Resistance) broke out, Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry, and the Québec Rifles took the lower fort. On August 3, 1871, Treaty No. 1 was signed between the federal government and seven chiefs of the Ojibway (Saulteaux) and Swampy Cree First Nations at Lower Fort Garry.

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Signed. Inscribed.
Recto, l.r.: P.M. O'Leary
Recto, l.c.: STONE FORT RED RIVER SETTLEMENT / 1870.
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Colonie de la rivière Rouge

Red River Settlement

Man. - Fort Garry
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13281]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : expired
Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13281-5

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