Sujet

Mica Bay, on Lake Superior, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Mica Bay, on Lake Superior, [Ontario, Canada], 1850. '...the principal mining establishment on the British side of the Lake Superior...has excited a good deal of attention of late from the Indians taking forcible possession of it...The Quebec Mining Company will resume operations in spring next; and, as it is said they have a most valuable mine, it is to be hoped that the exports of copper...will soon equal that from the American [side] which this year exceeds in value one million sterling'. The mining operations were in breach of a negotiated treaty, and contrary to the 1763 Royal Proclamation's statements on Indigenous land and resource rights. In 1849, a group of First Nations and Métis people attacked Quebec Mining Company sites at Mica Bay, with the goal of forcing the Company off the land. The government later began to negotiate treaty agreements with Indigenous communities. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_241

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,7Mo (3,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 26,1cm / 4960 x 3083 (300dpi)

Mots clés

industry metal lake British Canada land geography copper industrial mining illegal location Victorian century Colonial Britain newspapers press invasion ownership lake superior company concept Ontario B&W owner engraved engraving Treaty rights 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector colonialism colonisation geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century land rights Mica Bay Mica Bay Incident Quebec Mining Company