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Eastern Canada: Canada the New Homeland

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Item

Date:

1924

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2983951

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Eastern Canada: Canada the New Homeland
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1924

Place of creation:

Canada

Publisher:

Minister of Immigration and Colonization

Extent:

1 print / estampe : colour lithograph on wove paper
Support 27.700 x 20.500 cm

Language of material:

English

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The image depicts a young woman with blonde hair and brown eyes who is holding a rake in her left hand. She wears a blue hat that has a red flower tucked into the rim. Her right hand is reaching towards some wheat plants that are ready for harvest.

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Artist: Ward, Dudley, 1879-1935

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General note:

publication: pamphlet: In "Eastern Canada: Canada the New Homeland," Ottawa: Dept. of Immigration and Colonization, 1924. The item is the front cover of a Canadian government publication designed to promote immigration to Eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Ontario).The pamphlet is located in the National Library collection (LAC Published Holdings). See AMICUS 26305582
The inside front cover of this publication notes that the covers were "lithographed in Canada."

Location of originals note:

This record was created during a book illustration project done by the former Library Documentation and Service Division. This material is held by the Published Heritage area of LAC, thus cannot be ordered through Archives Search.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in the stone, recto, t.: EASTERN CANADA; l.l.: Issued by direction of / HON. JAMES ALEXANDER ROBB / Minister of Immigration / and Colonization / Ottawa, Canada, 1924; b.: CANADA - THE NEW HOMELAND; l.r.: Dudley / Ward; (Complete transcription)

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Department of Immigration collection
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travail
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Copyright: Expired

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