Official correspondence and reports relating to Vavasour and Warre's reconnaissance mission to the Oregon Territory can be found among records of the Governor General's office (see RG 7, G 18, volume 109), the War Office (see MG 13, WO 1) and Foreign Office (see MG 16, FO 5). An extract of Warre and Vavasour's report was printed in the Imperial Blue Books for 1846., Microfiche 15-20 also reproduces works by Sir Henry James Warre acquired from sources other than Mr. Michael Warre, London, England. These consist of two items in the Coverdale collection (MF15:D4 in the microfiche series, item 1970-188-2059, Cat. No. 400 and MF15:D5, item 1970-188-2094, Cat. No. 401); a sketch from the journal Voyage to & life in Canada: 1839-1843, in the Manuscript Division collection (MF15:D6); the watercolour Jacques Cartier River, Near Quebec, purchased at auction (lot #154) from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Inc., Toronto, 2 November 1982, previously held by the Kaspar Gallery, Toronto, where it appeared as #20 in a list dated 12 January 1982 (MF15:D7, item 1982-204-3); and two items that were acquired from William Denny in 1939 (MF18:A5 I-21, item 1939-343-1; MF18:A6 I-22, item 1939-344-1). See the inventory in the file for accession 1965-076 (PIC)., Sir Henry James Warre published a set of lithographs entitled "Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory" in London in 1848. This set consisted of 16 plates, twelve with single images on the plate, and four with two images on each plate, for a total of twenty views. The set was issued in green wrappers, and was accompanied by a title page, dedication page, five pages of text on three sheets, and a map of North America. The title page reads: "SKETCHES / IN / NORTH AMERICA / AND THE / OREGON TERRITORY / BY CAPTAIN HENRY JAMES WARRE / (A.D.C. to the late Commander of the Forces). / Lithographed, Printed and Published by / DICKINSON & C)., 114 NEW BOND STREET." The dedication page reads: "TO THE GOVERNOR, DEPUTY GOVERNOR, AND COMMITTEE / OF THE HONOURABLE THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY: / THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THEIR OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, HENRY J. WARRE."
The sixteen plates are unnumbered and different sets of the lithographs invariably have the plates in a different order. The lithographs were printed in black with a single tint stone added. LAC has as many as four copies of some of the plates, all of which have different coloured tint stones. The sets are part of the Adam Shortt Fonds, the W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana, the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, and a fourth set acquired sometime in the period before 1931.
The plates in the set are as follows: Fort Garry; Falls of the Kamanis Taquoih [Kamanastikwia] River; Buffalo Hunting on the Western Prairies (top) and Forcing a Passage through the Burning Prairie (bottom); Distant View of the Rocky Mountains; The Rocky Mountains; Fort Vancouver (top) and Indian Tomb (bottom); Valley of the Willamette River; The American Village; Mount Baker (top) and Cape Disappointment (bottom); Fort George (top) and McGillivray River (bottom); Les Dalles, Columbia River; Mount Hood from Les Dalles; Mount Hood; Falls of the Peloos [Palouse] River; The Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River, Looking N.W.; Source of the Columbia River., LAC owns 19 preparatory wash drawings by the artist and lithographer Thomas Miles Richardson (1813-1890) which relate directly to the lithographs published by Henry James Warre in 1848. These wash drawings were probably worked up from Warre's original sketches in order to allow the lithographer to copy the compositions onto stone, and to regularize the size of the images. One preparatory drawing, for the work An Indian Tomb, is not among the 19 drawings, and was once formerly in a private collection in Ottawa, but is now lost.
There is also one other lithograph after the work of Henry James Warre in the LAC's holdings. Described as having been drawn by Mrs. Shirley and Mr. Warre, A.D.C., it is entitled "Sleighing in Canada, on the River St. Lawrence, Facing Montreal, 1841".
