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N.-West Territory of Canada: sketches by the Marquis of Lorne: Red-Deer River, looking S.-East, 1881 Creator: Unknown.

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N.-West Territory of Canada: sketches by the Marquis of Lorne: Red-Deer River, looking S.-East, 1881. Engraving from '...sketches with which we have been favoured by his Excellency the Marquis of Lorne, Governor-General of Canada, who drew them in September while travelling with his suite through that extensive part of the Canadian Dominion...The Red Deer River] is...a tributary of the South Saskatchewan; but its upper stream and source are not far distant from Edmonton, on the North Saskatchewan, all this part of the territory being very well watered. There are encampments of the Blackfeet Indians on Red Deer River, and they were visited by the Governor-General. The land here is excellent in quality of soil, and the snow in winter is said never to lie more than three months. The woods shown in the Sketch are principally cotton-wood or poplar; but the lesser shrubs are willows, cranberry-bushes, which grow high, and "choke-cherries," the fruit of which hangs in rich clusters from the plant'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A43_084

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24,5Mo (2,4Mo) / 30,2cm x 20,3cm / 3568 x 2399 (300dpi)

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river arts mountain mountains remote art GRASSLAND British Canada geography location century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W prairie engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century prairies The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown North West Territories 19th-century The Illustrated London News John Campbell Campbell John 9th Duke of Argyll Campbell John Campbell John Douglas Sutherland 9th Duke of Argyll Duke of Argyll John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell 9th Duke of Argyll Argyll Duke of John George Edward Henry Douglas S Red Deer River