Voyageur Boat and Chippewa Canoe, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior.

Voyageur Boat and Chippewa Canoe, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior.

Voyageur Boat and Chippewa Canoe, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior.

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Introduction

This is a watercolor of a voyageur boat and a Chippewa canoe in a landscape background.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

The canoe in the image is described in the LAC title as Chippewa.

Date Made or Date Range: 1901
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

LAC record.

Materials

Watercolour; paper

Techniques or Format

Watercolour with scraping out on paper.

Motifs and Patterns

A masted voyageur boat tows a Chippewa canoe against a landscape background.

Dimensions: 0 × 38.6 × 21.4 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

LAC record and inscription on the painting.

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Mikan no. 2833424
Link to Institution's Collections Database: collectionscanada.gc.ca
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1979
Collection Narratives and Histories

This image is from the William Armstong fond, which consists of watercolours and prints by William Armstrong acquired from a variety of sources, mostly dealers and auction houses from 1914 onwards.

William Armstrong, born in Dublin in 1822, was a younger son of a military officer, who was apprenticed as a civil engineer in 1838.Armstrong may have begun traveling around and sketching views of the Great Lakes soon after his arrival in Canada in 1851.

GKS Reference Number: 754
Approximate Place of Origin

43.6511, -79.347

Source of Information about Places

LAC record.

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