Canada - Discovery and exploration
Bell, Edward, fl 1791-1794 : Journal of voyage in HMS Chatham to the Pacific Ocean
Date: Jan 1791-Feb 1794
By: Bell, Edward, active 1791-1794
Reference: qMS-2071-2073
Description: Journal of the voyage of the Armed Tender, HMS Chatham, captained by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton. HMS Chatham was one of the ships under the command of Captain Vancouver in his exploration of the Pacific and of the North American coast. Describes the voyage from England via Cape of Good Hope to Australia and New Zealand; activity at Dusky Sound, the discovery of the Chatham Islands, the voyage to Tahiti, with descriptions of the inhabitants, and of the Bounty mutineers. The voyage to Hawaii, with a description of the islands and their inhabitants, followed by the voyage to Canada and the Californian coast, before returning to Hawaii. Bell gives full accounts of the places and inhabitants visited. Publication - See: `[The journal of Edward Bell] from the time of the Chatham's being put in commission till her departure from England', by Edward Bell and Charles H Read. Edward Bell was the Clerk aboard the HMS Chatham during Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific Ocean, 1790-1795. Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs & typed transcript Finding Aids: Detailed inventory of the journal available.. Provenance: Formerly in possession of Mr R T Pritchett. Purchased by A H Turnbull from Maggs Bros, London, 1908.
Artist unknown :[... Bay of Gaspe in the Government of Quebec, situate in the Gulf of S...
Date: 1800
By: Mount St. Mary's Scholasticate
Reference: A-343-023
Description: Shows a view of the St Lawrence River, with some boats on the river, and a small group of houses on the right bank. The hills in the background are heavily wooded. Other Titles - Lawrence Other Titles - Wolfe Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 154 x 244 mm.
Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907 : Papers
Date: 1865-1909
By: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907
Reference: MS-Papers-1266
Description: Correspondence with collectors of NZ shells; account by W Stuart of Hector's exploration in Canada, 1857-1860; correspondence relating to visit to Canada, 1903, to death of son, Douglas; papers relating to Hector Memorial Fund Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typescripts (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
[Hood, Robert] ca 1790-1821 :Part of the Upper Winnipeg Falls. [Trout Fall. 1819]
Date: 1819
By: Hood, Robert, active 1790-1821; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018
Reference: A-239-003
Description: A waterfall to the left, with rocks in the centre and foreground, trees on the opposite bank of the river Title inscribed in pencil in Sir John's hand (cf facsimile of his journal in Traill, H. D. The life of Sir John Franklin. London 1896) See entry for 27 Sept 1819 in Franklin, J. Narrative of a journey to the Polar sea ... London, 1823; This cascade is named the Trout fall, and the beauty of the scenery afforded a subject for Mr Hood's pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 135 x 203 mm Provenance: Purchased with a collection of drawings by William Swainson and his family, possibly indicating that Swainson was an earlier owner of these Canadian drawings.
[Hood, Robert] ca 1790-1821 :[Morgans Rocks, upper part of Hill River, Canada] 19 Septe...
Date: 1819
By: Hood, Robert, active 1790-1821; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018
Reference: A-239-001
Description: View across water, with rocks and an Indian canoe in the foreground, one figure seated in the canoe, another on shore. There are distant islands and headlands with conifers in the background This drawing is labelled No. 1. The first drawing on this expedition is described in Franklin, J. Narrative of a journey to the Polar sea... London, 1823. p. 34 as 'the subject of Mr Hood's accurate pencil' Made on Sir John Franklin's first overland expedition, 1819-22 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 160 x 238 mm Provenance: Purchased with a collection of drawings by William Swainson and family suggesting Swainson as a former owner of this group of Canadian sketches.
John Player & Sons Ltd: Sir John Franklin's Arctic Expedition, 1819-22 [1915].
Date: 1819 - 1915 - 1822
From: John Player & Sons Ltd: Polar exploration; a series of 25 issued by the John Player & Sons Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd., Nottingham), [1915].
Reference: Eph-A-PCC-1915-01-20
Description: Card shows the explorers on Franklin's expedition crossing Lake Prosperous. Several canoes are travelling past an icy headland, and the one in the foreground contains eight men. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 38 x 69 mm.