GRAND PORTAGE
Grand Portage:
A History of The Sites, People, and Fur Trade
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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1. Painting of Grand Portage by Eastman
Johnson, 1857. All traces of the North West Company's establishment have
disappeared. The Indian encampment and the cabins, at the foot of Mount
Rose, are approximately within today's national monument's
boundaries.
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2. Painting of Grand Portage by Eastman
Johnson, 1857. More than fifty years after the North West Company moved
from Grand Portage, this painting catches Indian tents and cabins along
the shore of Grand Portage Bay. In the distance lies Grand Portage
Island.
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3. Indians and buildings at Grand
Portage about 1890. Photograph by C. A. Newton. Courtesy, Minnesota
Historical Society.
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4. Grand Portage village about 1920. The
reconstructed North West Company stockade today stands in the area shown
in the lower right corner of the photograph. The dock shown is not the
present one. The largest white building, just beyond the school, was an
Indian school. It was located on a small mound that was investigated by
archeologists in 1962.
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5. Aerial of the reconstructed North
West Company stockade at Grand Portage. The reconstructed Great Hall
within the stockade has since burned. The white lines just to the right
of the stockade indicate trenches dug during archeological work in 1962.
The wider-spaced parallel lines to the right of the road junction are
from survey work, not archeology.
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(ommited from the online edition)
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6. One of several burials discovered by
archeologists in 1962 at Grand Portage National Monument. Of interest
was the red cloth headband having six small silver plates attached. No
evidence of a grave house was found.
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7. Fort William on the Kaministikwia
River (Ontario), sketched in 1812 by Robert Irvine, master of the North
West Company schooner Caledonia. In 1815 this sketch appeared on
Joseph Bouchette's "Map of the Provinces," where it was captioned as
Grand Portage. Courtesy, Public Archives of Canada.
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8. Frances Ann Hopkins, wife of the
private secretary to Sir George Simpson, Hudson's Bay Company, painted
this and the following illustrations from life. Remarkably faithful in
her details, Mrs. Hopkins accurately captured the life of the voyageurs.
Had she not placed herself and her husband in the picture, they could
have been done at Grand Portage one hundred years earlier. She called
this painting "Canoe Manned by Voyageurs," 1869. Courtesy, Public
Archives of Canada.
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9. Shooting the rapids. Mrs. Hopkins
painted this picture probably in 1869 or 1870. Courtesy, Public Archives
of Canada.
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10. Mrs. Hopkins' misty, moody Voyageurs
at dawn catches the cold damp morning and the voyageurs' simple camp
better than any amount of words. The descriptions of Grand Portage
indicate that the Montreal voyageurs lived very much like those shown
here when they were at Grand Portage. Courtesy, Public Archives of
Canada.
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11. Mrs. Hopkins traveled in the Red
River Expedition of 1870, commanded by Col. G. J. Wolseley. Here the
expedition begins a difficult portage, an exercise in stamina repeated
annually at Grand Portage. Courtesy, Public Archives of Canada.
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Last Updated: 15-Jul-2009
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