Snowshoes
Description
- Creator
- Various, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A photograph of a pair of snowshoes on the grass.
- Notes
- Snowshoes. Snowshoeing probably originated several thousand years ago. For North American Natives and early settlers snowshoes were a principal means of transportation. Snowshoes were originated by the North American Natives. They usually consisited of a wooden frame strengthened by rawhide Snow Shoes #1 were used by Mr. Berkley of Whitefish Lake, and Snowshoes #2 by Mr. Bill Wilson of Humphrey. Snowshoe frames were made by Mr. Alfred Dixon of Lake Joseph before 1898. Snowshoes #1 donated by Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sillito, Whitefish Lake, Snowshoes #2 loaned by Mrs. Marion Kosowan, Humphrey. Snowshoes #3 loaned by Mrs. Grace Hatherley, Humphrey.
- Date of Original
- 2010
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 15 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- SIC
- Collection
- Seguin Museum Board
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 45.2804133126678 Longitude: -79.7646352888489
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- Donor
- Mr. & Mrs. Norm Sillito
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Date
- 2010
- Copyright Holder
- Seguin Township Museum
- Copyright Holder Contact Information
- 3 Museum Rd., Seguin, ON P2A 2W8 Keith Carscadden Phone: 705-732-6490 email: committee@seguinmuseum.org
- Contact
- Humphrey MuseumEmail:ceoseguinlibrary@gmail.com
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
[previously Seguin Township Museum]
14 Sundown Road, RR2
Parry Sound, ON P2A 2W8
