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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 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).
Item is a photocopy of a map showing the railways, trails, and telegraph lines used in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 for the districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Assiniboia, and Manitoba, along with parts of Montana and North Dakota. Along top edge of sheet are illustrations of: Qu'Appelle Valley; Sir John A. MacDonald; and Medicine Hat (showing bridge crossing over South Saskatchewan River); along bottom edge of sheet are illustrations of: Kopiassiswean (alternately known as Koriassiswean or Bird Skin) based on photograph taken near Calgary in 1884; Major General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton; crossed rifles with bayonets; "Savage Indian Warfare" - a depiction of a First Nations' warrior standing over a prone figure with a raised arm; Louis Riel; crossed tomahawk and Indian pipe; and Ne-Raip-A-Shaw.
Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association life membership certificate (number 675) issued to J. W. Hern of Togo, Saskatchewan and dated March 12, 1917; Christmas cards (some with illustrations and embroidery) sent from friends and relatives to Sidney Hern, ca. 1882.
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.
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.