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Title

A Red River Cart at Calgary, N.W.T. 

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Item (linked) part of

Edward D. Roper Fonds [graphic material, textual records]

Bilingual equivalent

Une charrette de la rivière Rouge à Calgary

Date(s)

ca. 1887-1909

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 painting / peinture : oil on commercial board
Support: 80.600 x 61.400 cm
Image: 50.900 x 30.500 cm
Inventory no.: op0069

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
physical access restriction
Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-011021
90: Open
Graphic (art)
90: Open
Box
2000851765 Item no. assigned by LAC 6
90: Open
Other accession no.
00006
1989-446 X DAP

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-446-6
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Roper, Edward, 1833-1909.

Additional information

Availability of other formats note
Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note
Exhibition Title: The Peter Winkworth Collections of Canadiana: Vast New Lands- Canada's Northwest. Curator: Jim Burant, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.11.25 -2007.08.29. Further Venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 2006.11.25-2007.01.21. Further Venue: Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2007.02.17 - 2007.04.15. Further Venue: RCMP Heritage Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan; 2007.06.30-2007.08.29.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscription: in pencil, verso, b.: Red River cart at Calgary N.W.T.; printed on paper laid down, verso, u.c.: 51. A Red River Cart at Calgary, / N.W.T. / A civilized Indian, dressed in white man's clothes / with his wife and child in the cart, marches with / considerate dignity past a "wild" Indian and / squaw, dressed in the usual ...me of the / "untutored savage," who ca ... orn upon / their "tame" brother.

Subject heading

1. Alberta.
2. transportation.
3. transport.
4. Indian.
5. SUBJ - NATIVES, CULTURE - COSTUMES.
6. SUBJ - NATIVES, REGIONS - PRAIRIE PROVINCES - CA. 1887.
7. SUBJ - TRANSPORTATION, LAND - RED RIVER CARTS.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON49506

MIKAN no.

2836475