The Pioneer, 1784

Also titled "PIONEER SOWING GRAIN IN HIS CLEARING"; "Pioneer sowing grain"

c. 1926
work on paper
71.1 x 51.4 cm

Signed l.l.: C.W. JEFFERYS 

Credit: Archives of Ontario: Government of Ontario Art Collection

Publication References

• Scott, Duncan Campbell.  The makers of Canada:  John Graves Simcoe. Toronto, Morang and Co., Ltd., 1911.  241 p.  Illus.[bound with General Brock by Lady Edgar;  spine title Early British rule: Simcoe/Brock] [vol. iv of Makers of Canada series under which title it is filed] opp. p. 60  -  “The Pioneer”

• Canadian Magazine, v. 36, Nov. 1910-April, 1911.  Illus. 

  p. 210  -  “’The Pioneer’/Painting by C.W. Jefferys/Courtesy of Robert Glasgow, Publisher”  v. 36, no. 3, Jan. 1911

• Wetherell, J. E.  and Jefferys, Charles W.  Handbook to Nelson’s Pictures of Canadian History.  Toronto, Nelson, 1927.  76 p.  Illus. p. 49  -  “The pioneer”

• Fortier, L.M.  Champlain’s Order of Good Cheer, and some brief notes relating to its founder.  Toronto, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1928. 28 p.  Illus.

• Henry, Lorne J.  and Paterson, Gilbert.  Pioneer days in Ontario.  Toronto, Ryerson, 1938.  234 p.  Illus. p. 62  -  “A Pioneer Sowing Grain in his new Clearing”

• Woodley, E.C.  Old Quebec trails and homes.   Toronto, Ryerson, 1946. 137 p.  Illus. p. 74  -  “Pioneer sowing grain in his clearing”

• Moore, Kathleen and McEwen, Jessie.  A picture history of Canada.  Toronto, Thomas Nelson,  1966  103 p.  Illus. 

  -  “The Pioneer”

• Jefferys, Charles W. 1945 The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Vol. 2, p.37

• Brown, Graham L. 1981 Pioneer settlement in Canada, 1763-1895

• Choquette, Robert.  Ontario:  an informal history of the land and its people. Toronto, Ministry of Education, 1983.  48 p.  Illus. p. 19  -  “A pioneer settler sowing grain in his clearing”

• Bayer, Fern.  The Ontario collection.  Toronto, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1984. 388 p.  Illus. 

  p. 139  -  “The pioneer, 1784”

• Documenting a province:  the Archives of Ontario at 100.  Toronto, Queen’s Printer, 2003.    344 p.  Illus. 

  p. 315  -  “The Pioneer” p. 342  -  “11-4: The Pioneer [ca. 1921]  Charles William Jeffery (1869-1951) (Government of Ontario Art Collection, 623327

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