Artifacts from Red River Settlement on display
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Two-hundred-year-old artifacts, dating back to the arrival of the first Selkirk settlers in Manitoba, are now on display at the provincial archives building.
The Archives of Manitoba, including the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and the Legislative Library of Manitoba, are marking 200th anniversary of the Red River Settlement with an exhibit of archival records and library materials.
The exhibit includes:
– photographs of Humphrey Lloyd Hime, a surveyor and photographer who accompanied the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition in 1858 and took what are probably the first photographs of the Canadian West;
– paintings of Peter Rindisbachers, an artist known for his depictions of the lives of settlers and Aboriginal people in the Red River Settlement;
– the will and testament of Saulteaux Chief Peguis, one of five chiefs who signed a treaty with Lord Selkirk to provide land for settlement;
– a copy of an early Red River census conducted by the Council of Assiniboia in 1828;
– a post journal which recorded a graphic description of the great Red River flood of 1826 as told by the Upper Fort Garry Hudson’s Bay Company clerk Frances Heron;
– records of the Matilda Davis School in St. Andrews, representing the development of Red River schools;
– a plan of the Red River Colony surveyed in 1836 by George Taylor;
– excerpts of baptism, marriage and death from Rupert’s Land registers sent to the governor and committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company around 1820;
– a copy of The Nor’Wester from Feb. 14, 1860, containing an article by Chief Peguis; and
– an image from Bishop David Anderson’s flood journal title page, Notes of The Flood at Red River, 1852.
Public viewing of the material is Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 200 Vaughan St. entrance at the corner of St. Mary Avenue. Guided tours will be offered for a limited time. To schedule a tour phone the Archives of Manitoba at 204-945-7586.
A related exhibit about the Selkirk Settlement can be seen at the Manitoba Museum.