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Mrs. Clementina Fessenden - Empire Day
Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless - Women's Institutes
Sparks & Elgin Streets, Ottawa, 1865
King & Yonge Streets, Toronto about 1890
Wyndham Street, Guelph, Canada West, 1863
Dominion Building with present Post Office. Built 1937
Former Post Office, on opposite corner, built 1858 - 60
Drawn from an old photograph of "Soapy" Smith and some of his gang in one of his hangouts. Left to right: "Nate" Pollock, John Bower, john Clancy, "Soapy Smith", "Sheeney Kid", "Red".
In 1903-1906 Captain Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian (later the discoverer of the South Pole in 1911), made the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of Bering Strait, in his little ship, the Gjoa.
The building was originally occupied by the Anglo-American Hotel. It contained 170 rooms, much too large for the Hamilton of that day, and consequently proved an unprofitable venture. It became a young ladies' boarding and day school...
Lieut.-Gov. Simcoe supervises building of Fort York in 1794. In right background is a saw pit. Timbers were cut from Toronto forest.
Prairie Marsh Morning
Date: c1890
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 10.25 x 14.25
Picturing the Northwest: Historical Art from Glenbow’s Collection
Note that the costumes and hair-dressing of Smith and Jarvis are of an earlier date than those of Powell and Hamilton: the former wear wigs, the latter their own hair.
Colonel Henry Bouquet, from painting in Parkman,"Conspiracy of Pontiac", Major Henry Gladwin, from painting by John Holland