Recherche dans la collection - Crossing the Assiniboine River at Beaver Creek, near Fort Ellice / Traversée de la rivière Assiniboine à Beaver Creek, près de Fort Ellice

Set: "Sketches Taken en Route to the Columbia River and Oregon, 1845"
Fort Ellice (Manitoba) was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1831 near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers. It was a stopping point on the Carlton Trail, which ran from the Red River Colony to Fort Edmonton. The section between Upper Fort Garry and Fort Ellice was known as the Fort Ellice Trail. The 1831 trading post was replaced in 1862 by another structure approximately 2 km east of the original site. The 1862 fort also acted as a staging point for part of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) force from Fort Dufferin (Manitoba) when it headed west in 1874 to establish law and order. The fort acted as an NWMP post beginning in 1875.
The Red River cart was first used by the Métis to carry meat from the buffalo hunt and in farm work. Later, they would be used in brigades to transport goods over long distances.

Exhibition title: Overland to Oregon in 1845: Impressions of a Journey across North America by H.J. Warre. Curators: Madeleine Major-Frégeau, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1977.11 - 1978.01., Further venue: Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alberta (?)., Further venue: Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vanocuver, British Colombia (?)., Further venue: Washington State Historical Museum, Tacoma, Washington, D.C.; 1977.01.07 - 1977.02.26., Further venue: Washington State Capitol Museum, Olympia, Washington D.C.; 1977.03.04 - 1977.03.31., Further venue: Yakima Valley Museum, Yakima, Washington D.C.; 1977.04.04 - 1977.04.30., Further venue: West Washington State College, Bellingham, Washington D.C.; 1977.05.05 - 1977.05.27., Further venue: Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, Massachusets; 1977.07.01 - 1977.09.31., Further venue: Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Portland, Oregon; 1978.01.01 - 1978.03.31., Further venue: Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta (?).

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