Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada
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Author/Creator
National Archives of Canada
Description
Folder contains three pages of text and portraits.
Historical note:
The town of Fort Qu'Appelle, SK, is located in the Qu'Appelle Valley 70 km NE of Regina between Echo and Mission Lakes. Fort Qu'Appelle was the crossroads of a number of historic trails that traversed the North-West Territories. The Hudson's Bay Company built a post at Fort Qu'Appelle in 1864.Reprint of the ed. published by Hutchings Printing House, Austin, Texas, 1889.
Comments on four letters containing new information regarding a group of five Inuit who travelled to England from Labrador in the 18th century. The four letters discussed are included.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.