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Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1869

Reference:

R5666-0-8-E, Box number: OP-0097

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2894475

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Frances Anne Hopkins fonds

Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1869

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas
Support 73.700 x 152.400 cm
Image 73.700 x 152.400 cm

Language of material:

no language

Scope and content:

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Scene showing a large Hudson's Bay Company freight canoe passing a waterfall, presumably on the French River. The passengers in the canoe may be the artist and her husband, Edward Hopkins, secretary to the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Provenance:

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Hopkins, Frances Anne, 1836-1919

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Artist: Hopkins, Frances Anne, 1836-1919

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General note:

Voyageurs were generally contracted employees who worked as canoe paddlers, bundle carriers, and general laborers for fur trading firms. They were also known as engagés, or employees. The voyageurs were French-Canadian, Métis, English, First Nations and German.
"Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall).

Custodial history:

This painting, as well as three others, were acquired by Anderson Galleries, New York, from the estate of Frances Anne Hopkins; thereafter they were purchased by Canadian publisher Robert Brook of Glasgow, Brook & Co., and then sold to the Public Archives for the same price for which Mr. Brook had purchased them.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was also made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival (?). Further venue: Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Quebec; 1928.05.24 - 1928.05.28., Exhibition title: From Women's Eyes- Women Painters in Canada. Curators: Dorothy Farr and Natalie Luckyj, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 1975.12.12 - 1976.01.31, cat. no.: no. 13
Further venue: MacDonald Gallery, Ministry of Government Services, Ontario; 1976.02.23 - 1976.03.31, Exhibition title: Economic Summit Meeting in Montebello and Ottawa. Curators: Marilyn Donaghue, Department of Public Works, East Block, Parliament Building, Ottawa, Ontario; 1981.07.19 - 1981.07.24., Exhibition Title: The Painted Past. Curator: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1984.10.02 - 1984.10.31
Further Venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; 1987.04.10 - 1987.06.07
Further Venue: McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec; 1987.07.08 - 1988.01.03
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1989.06.01 - 1989.07.11, Exhibition Title: Unveiling Ceremony of Frances Ann Hopkins Postage Stamp. Curator: Staff of the National Archives of Canada, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1988.11.18 - 1988.11.21, Exhibition Title: Frances Anne Hopkins 1838-1919, Canadian Scenery. Curator: Janet Clark. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 1990.01.29 - 1990.03.18
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; 1990.04.07 - 1990.05.27
Further Venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.08.31 - 1990.09.30
Further Venue: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; 1990.10.20 - 1990.12.09, Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Loyal She Remains- Ontario. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2005.09.17 -2006.10.22.
Further Venue: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 2005.09.17- 2005.11.27.
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windor, Windsor, Ontario; 2006.02.11-2006.03.26.
Further Venue: Museum London, London, Ontario; 2006.08.19-2006.10.22., Exhibition Title: In The Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art. Curator: Liz Wylie, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 1998.06.27-1998.11.01, Exhibition title: The Artist Herself: Self Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artist. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 2015.05.02 - 2015.08.10
Further venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia; 2015.09.27 - 2016.01.03
Further venue: Art Gallery of Kelowna, Kelowna, British Columbia; 2016.01.22 - 2014.04.03
Further venue: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; 2016.05.25 - 2016.09.13, Exhibition title: Canadian History Hall, Canadian Museum of History: 2017.07.01, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 1: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1997.05.14-1998.01.31, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 4: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2000.03.22 - 2000.12.31, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 5: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2001.01.22 - 2001.11.12, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 6: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2002.02.18 - 2002.11.17

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: brushpoint and black paint, recto, l.r.: FAH [monogram]/1869
Subject heading:

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Ontario

work

SUBJ - VOYAGEURS

SUBJ. - Fur Trade

SUBJ - COSTUMES, ACTIVITIES - OCCUPATIONAL - VOYAGEURS

Transportation - Water - Canoes
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00001
1989-401 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0097 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-002771 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. 1989-401-1 / e011153912
Copyright: Expired

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