Upper Fort Garry, Red River Settlement, 1870

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Upper Fort Garry, Red River Settlement, 1870

Item ID number:

3968680

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Date:

ca. 1870.

Reference:

R13281-8-7-E, Volume number: 2

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

3968680

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P.M. O'Leary Collection

Upper Fort Garry, 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 ; 21.7 x 29.2 cm (image).

Language of material:

English

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Image depicts a landscape view of upper Fort Garry at the Red River Settlement, Manitoba, with the water visible in the distance and a small horse-drawn sleigh on the right.
Drawing is after a wood engraving 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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General Note:

Acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 1/5/20, written on the verso., 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.

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Inscribed. Signed.
Recto, l.r.: P.M. O'Leary
Recto, l.c.: Upper Fort Garry, Red River Settlement, 1870.

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Colonie de la rivière Rouge

Red River Settlement

MAN. - FORT GARRY - UPPER
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13281]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 8

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : expired
Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13281-8

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