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A View of the Post Dog Trains Leaving Fort Garry for St. Paul

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William Armstrong fonds

A View of the Post Dog Trains Leaving Fort Garry for St. Paul
Record information
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A View of the Post Dog Trains Leaving Fort Garry for St. Paul

Date:

1901

Reference:

Box number: A004-02

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2833396

Date(s):

1901

Bilingual equivalent:

See French record description

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

no language

Additional name(s):

Artist: Armstrong, William, 1822-1914

Additional information:

General note:

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.
Winnipeg was incorporated on November 8, 1873. Previous to that date, it was called Fort Garry.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: William Armstrong: Art and Enterprise, Watercolour Paintings of New Ontario 1822-1914. Curators: Janet Clark, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 1996.01.19 - 1996.03.17. Further Venue: Glenbow Museum: 1996.05.04-1996.08.04., Exhibition title: Focus series - Pulling Their Weight: Dog Teams in Indigenous and Canadian Art. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2021.09.01 - 2022.03.01.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, diagonal, l.r.: W.Armstrong / 1901

Subject heading:

Manitoba

TRANSPORTATION - LAND - DOG SLED

Transportation

MAN. - FORT GARRY - UPPER

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

00003
1989-492 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation 90 Open]
Physical access to be given through an art archivist

Box [1989-492]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A004-02 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-492]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-010503 Item no. assigned by LAC 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-492-3
Copyright: Expired

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