Collection search - Montreal Winter Carnival, 1887: Canada's Winter Carnival by P.W. Ellis

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Montreal Winter Carnival, 1887: Canada's Winter Carnival by P.W. Ellis

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Date:

1887.

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

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Item ID number:

3638118

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National Medal Collection

Montreal Winter Carnival, 1887: Canada's Winter Carnival
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Date(s):

1887.

Place:

Montreal:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 medal / médaille : white metal ; 022.52 gr
Support 38.000 x mm

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On the obverse of this medal, there is a view of a building with crenellated turrets, etc., and with one flag flying.

On the reverse, there is a view of three human figures in caps with long tassles, etc. seated on a tobaggon which is going down a steep hill to left; behind them are fir trees and in the foreground is a male figure seen from the rear and to hip-length who wears a cap with a long tassle, a coat with a hood, etc. The edge is blank.

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: CANADA'S WINTER CARNIVAL / ICE CASTLE / MONTREAL FEB. 1887, Inscription: reverse: P. W. ELLIS & CO. / TORONTO, Inscription: edge: no inscription, Inscription: attachment: no attachment
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landscape

amusements

commemoration

architecture sport
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1986-079 X PIC
05831
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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-79-5831

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