Smiths Falls by James Pattison Cockburn (1779-1847), ca.1830

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Image

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Watercolors

Description

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Hierarchical level: Item (Accession)
Date: ca. 1830
Reference: Accession number: 00029, 1989-262 X DAP, Box number: A042-02
Type of material: Art
Found in: Archives / Collections and Fonds
Item ID number: 2836138
Context of this record: Smith's Falls, Rideau,
Date(s): ca. 1830
Place of creation: No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent: 1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour and pen and brown ink over pencil on wove paper
Image: 37.400 X 26.800 cm
Additional name(s):
Artist: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779-1847
Subject heading:
1. Ont., Smith's Falls
2. Ontario
3. landscape
4. SUBJ - PORTAGE
Source: Private
Other system control no.: ICON47628
Related control no.: 1989-262 DAP
Other accession no.: 00029
1989-262 X DAP

Notes

Illustrated in Glenn J. Lockwood's "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994", p.19 - plate 10 - the caption reads: "My canoe portage at Smith's Falls," a water-colour over pencil sketch by James Pattison Cockburn circa 1830. The mile of rapids and waterfalls at Smyth's falls necessitated a lengthy portage for Native peoples and early European travellers. This barrier to transportation on the river and the lack of a road past the site partly explain the late emergence of Smyth's falls as a permanent settlement. This view is taken from the site of the Rideau Canal museum looking south along what eventually became the waste weir. Jason Island is in the centre distance, with the former river bed below the government stone arch dam to the right of it, and buildings of the canal construction camp on the far right of the north bank of the river."

Glenn J. Lockwood. "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994." Smiths Falls: Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls, 1994.

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