Building Fort Yukon, 1847-1848
- R-D346-D (8)
- Item
- 1948 or earlier
Produced for the 1949 Hudson's Bay Company calendar, item is an illustration depicting the building of Fort Yukon between 1847 and 1848.
Phillips, Walter J.
Building Fort Yukon, 1847-1848
Produced for the 1949 Hudson's Bay Company calendar, item is an illustration depicting the building of Fort Yukon between 1847 and 1848.
Phillips, Walter J.
The Spring Brigade Leaves Montreal for the West
Item is the illustration from the 1948 Hudson's Bay Company calendar of the painting "The Spring Brigade leaves Montreal for the West." Image shows loaded canoes on the water in foreground, cheering people and carts along the shores, and buildings in background.
Arbuckle, George Franklin, 1909-2001
Troops at Upper Fort Garry, 1846-1848
Item is an illustration produced for the 1946 Hudson's Bay Company calendar that commemorates the centennial of the arrival of British troops in Red River and depicts a captain of the 6th Regiment of Foot on a winter morning passing through the old gate of Upper Fort Garry (the old gate is also known as Governor's Gate, and currently located in downtown Winnipeg near the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers). On the left side of the image are two of the buildings that were reserved for the Company and to the right a house reserved for the officers.
Scott, Adam Sheriff, 1887-1980
Chief Trader McDonald Descending the Fraser, 1828
Item is a reproduction of an image originally created about 1942, as an illustration for the 1944 Hudson's Bay Company calendar that shows an 1828 view of the Hudson's Bay Company's chief trader Archibald McDonald (1790-1853) and his party descending rapids on the Fraser River in an area above the present town of Yale, B.C.
Scott, Adam Sheriff, 1887-1980
Nicholas Garry at Slave Falls, 1821
Item is an illustration entitled "Nicholas Garry at Slave Falls in 1821" that was commissioned for the 1959 Hudson's Bay Company calendar. The image presents a scene of Nicholas Garry's travels to the united fur trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company that emerged following their merger in early 1821. In the foreground of the images are persons seated on the side of a flowing river and who are drinking and/or eating, with a top hat and cloth bags are resting on the ground beside some flowers. In the centre of the background is the far shore of the river (with rocks and trees), in back left of image an individual is standing on rocks with one hand on his hip and a paddle in the other, and in the back right two persons are transporting an overturned canoe on the shoulders.
Woods, Rex, 1903-1987
Trading Ceremony at York Factory, 1780s
Originally created in 1948 by Adam Sheriff Scott, item is an illustration produced for the 1956 Hudson's Bay Company calendar that shows a trading ceremony at York Factory in the 1780s. In the foreground of illustration is a procession of British officers, in scarlet, with the Red Ensign held on high while to the side are aboriginal traders and families.
Scott, Adam Sheriff, 1887-1980
Murder of the priests at Frog Lake
Item is a framed colour lithograph is an artist rendition of the dead and dying at Frog Lake during the 1885 Rebellion event that has been characterised as the "Frog Lake Massacre." Image shows a First Nations man firing a rifle into a priest's back, a woman consoling a wounded man and applying a handkerchief to his chest, meanwhile four dead men lie on the ground nearby.
Illustration appeared in Canadian Pictorial and Illustrate War News, Souvenir Part 1 (1885-07-04, p. 7).
Illustration by Richard Jack of the second battle of Ypres, Great War
Illustration of painting by Richard Jack depicting the second battle of Ypres during the Great War.
Jack, Richard, 1866-1952
Six months in the wilds of the North-West : Sandstone rocks in Dead Horse Valley
Item is a mounted image from the southern Alberta badlands showing a First Nations person standing beside a horse, next to two men (possibly Northwest Mounted Police [NWMP] officers) on horses (one in profile, one shown from the rear). Scrub plant growth is in foreground of image and rocky outcrops (hoodoos) in background.
Image appeared in Canadian Illustrated News, May 22, 1875 (volume XI, number 21, p. 324).
Item is a photographic reproduction of a pencil portrait of Cuthbert James Grant.