In 1873, several copies of a third silver medal with a more appropriate western theme were ordered from J.S. & A.B. Wyon of London, England, at a cost of $24 each. They featured a bust of Queen ...

The Department of the Interior and travel companies with a vested interest in settling the Prairies sometimes joined forces to produce posters that promoted western immigration. The one shown here was ...

Unfortunately, the route chosen by the North-West Mounted Police for their epic march across the Prairies did not follow the long-established trails of the Métis. Instead Commissioner George A. French ...

This site provides access to the first set of detailed maps prepared by the Canadian government to show federal electoral boundaries. Most of the electoral districts described in this 1895 atlas are ...

This poster compares Canada's "Last Best West" to the American New Eldorado. The poster features images of farmlands, crops, and homesteads that were available to prospective settlers. The images are ...

Napier was hired as an engineer on Hind's expedition to Red River. Trained as a topographical artist, he sketched a number of scenes while en route to Red River, as well as different winter activities ...

This is a chromoxylograph (a colour wood engraving, "chromo" meaning colour and "xylo" indicating wood) that was produced from a Hime photograph having the same title. It was published in Henry Youle ...

The settlement of quarter-section homesteads and preemptions by agriculturalists created a demand for maps that showed the individual landowners in each township. These maps were comparable to a rural ...

During his stay at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Pitt, Kane sketched this portrait of a Cree chief with face paint and a ceremonial wolf skin. The chief was participating in a vengeance party that ...

Since the medal used in Treaties 1 and 2 was considered too small and the design inappropriate, a substitute medal was commissioned by the federal government in 1872 from silversmith Robert Hendry of ...

Back accompanied John Franklin on his first overland expedition (1819-1822) in search of the Northwest Passage. Their voyage started in York Factory on Hudson Bay and passed through present-day ...

As evident in Palliser's 1865 map, much of his exploratory science consisted of what historian Suzanne Zeller has called "inventory science." Palliser identified transportation routes, catalogued ...