Pre-European Settlement

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This document includes the journal entry ‘Itinerary” version of Henry Youle Hind’s two week long journey from Fort Garry to Fort Ellice via the Souris River, during the summer of 1858. The art work is by John Flemming.

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John Fleming was employed as a Provincial Land Surveyor when invited to  accompany Professor Henry Youle Hind on his Canadian Red River, Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expeditions of 1857‐58, sent to assess the settlement potentials of the Hudson’s Bay Company Rupertsland territories. As the Hind Expedition’s “Assistant Surveyor and Draughtsman” Fleming’s responsibilities included making sketches to be utilized by Hind in his final report. The images in this collection are from among those he completed during this expedition.

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A collectuon of works of art painted by Rindisbacher during his time in the west.

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