Jefferys Collection (page 2)

PIERRE ESPRIT RADISSON (c1636-c1710). French fur trader and explorer. Radisson and Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, exploring the Hudson Bay region of Canada. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

HABITATION OF QUEBEC, 1608. Drawing by Charles W. Jefferys after an engraving in the works of Samuel de Champlain

NEW FRANCE: GRAIN MILL. A seigneurial grain mill in 17th-century New France on the Saint Lawrence River, where tenants were obliged to grind their grain. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys, 1942

CANADA: VANCOUVER, 1791. The ships of George Vancouver and Spanish explorers at Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound, in 1791. The Spanish that year relinquished to Vancouver the territorial right they had

CANADA: GOLD MINING, 1860s. A coach with gold, guarded by armed men, passes miners headed for the gold fields of Cariboo country, British Columbia, Canada, along the Cariboo Road, completed in 1865

WOLFE AT QUEBEC, 1759. General James Wolfe leading the British thin red line into battle against the French on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, 13 September 1759. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

CANADA: MISSIONARY, 1870s. Methodist missionary John McDougall among the Cree Native Americans of western Canada, early 1870s. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

CANADIAN MOUNTIES, 1873. Officers of the North West Mounted Police, 1873. Pen-and-ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys

CANADA: BRITISH EMIGRANTS. British emigrants aboard a ship to Canada, seeking to escape the economic depression in Great Britain in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, c1830

CANADA: RED RIVER, 1812. In 1812, the Hudsons Bay Company secured a grant of land on the Red River (on the outskirts of modern Winnipeg)

CANADA: RED RIVER CART. French-Native American Metis driving a Red River cart, c1810, made entirely of wood with buffalo-skin tires. Illustration by C.W. Jefferys

CANADA: IMMIGRANTS, 1830s. An economic depression in Great Britain after the Napoleonic Wars caused a wave of emigration to Canada in the 1830s. Pen-and-ink drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

CANADA: EMIGRANTS, 1830. British emigrants recently arrived in Canada, having escaped the economic depression in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. Illustration by C.W. Jefferys

CANADA: REBELLION, 1837. Rebels marching down Yonge Street to attack Toronto. Some of the 800 insurrectionists led by William Lyon Mackenzie in his failed attempt to establish a provisional

CANADA: JESUIT MISSIONARY. A Jesuit missionary preaching to the Native Americans in 17th century Canada. Line drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

JEAN TALON (c1625-1694). French colonial administrator in Canada. Talon watching shipbuilding at Quebec while serving as Intendant of New France, c1670. Pen-and-ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys

LAURA SECORD (1775-1868). Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. Laura Secord warning the British Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon at Beaver Dams, Canada, about the intended American surprise attack

SIEUR de LA VERENDRYE (1685-1749). French Canadian explorer. Drawing by C. W. Jefferys
SIEUR de LA VERENDRYE (1685-1749). French Canadian explorer. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SIEUR DE MAISONNEUVE (1612-1676). Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve. French colonial administrator. Sieur de Maisonneuve fighting the Iroquois outside the fort at Montreal, 1644. Drawing by C.W

ALEXANDER MacKENZIE (1764-1820). Scottish explorer. Mackenzie sighting the Arctic Sea for the first time on 14 July 1789 while on an expedition for the North-West Company

SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (1764-1820). Scottish explorer. Mackenzie sighting the Arctic Sea for the first time on 14 July 1789 while on an expedition for the North-West Company

LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU (1786-1871). Canadian politician. Drawing by C. W. Jefferys
LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU (1786-1871). Canadian politician. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SIEUR D IBERVILLE (1661-1706). Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d Iberville. French-Canadian soldier and colonist. Ibervilles defeat of the English ships on Hudson Bay, 1697

LOUIS JOLLIET (1645-1700). French explorer. Descending the Mississippi River with Father Marquette. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SAMUEL HEARNE (1745-1792). English explorer in Canada. Hearne journeying to the Arctic under the northern lights (aurora borealis), 1770. Pen-and-ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SIMON FRASER (1776-1862). Canadian fur trader and explorer. Pen and ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (1567-1635). French explorer in North America. Champlain taking an observation with his astrolabe on the Ottawa River in 1613. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

SIEUR DE CADILLAC (1658-1730). Antoine de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac. French colonial administrator in America. Sieur de Cadillac landing in Detroit in 1701 with his party of one hundred men

JACQUES CARTIER (1491-1557). French sailor and explorer. Cartier and his exploration party pray for relief from their sickness in the winter of 1535. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

ISaC BROCK (1769-1812). British soldier in Canada. Line drawing by C. W. Jefferys
ISaC BROCK (1769-1812). British soldier in Canada. Line drawing by C.W. Jefferys

JOSEPH BRANT (1742-1807). Native American name: Thayendanegea. Mohawk Native American chief. Brant and his Mohawk chiefs at Grand River, Ontario

JACQUES CARTIER (1491-1577). French sailor and explorer. Cartier at the Huron-Iroquois village of Hochelaga (at present-day Montreal) in 1535

VANCOUVER ISLAND, 1778. Captain James Cook at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada, in 1778. Drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

JOHN CABOT (1450-1498). Italian navigator and explorer. Cabot and his ship Mathew off the coast of Newfoundland in 1497. pen and ink drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

MacKENZIE: MAP. A map of the explorations of Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764-1820), Scottish explorer in North America, showing his route from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska along the Mackenzie River

COUNTRY DANCE, 1820s. A country dance on the American frontier in the 1820s: Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

TORONTO UNIVERSITY. Toronto University, originally Kings College, built in 1842. Pen-and-ink drawing by Charles W. Jefferys (1869-1951)

IROQUOIS: BIRCHBARK CANOE. Iroquois Native Americans constructing a birchbark canoe. Illustration by C.W. Jefferys

POUNDMAKER (c1842-1886). Canadian Cree chief. Line drawing by Charles W. Jefferys, after a photograph of c1885

IROQUOIS VILLAGE, c1500. Artists reconstruction of part of a Huron Iroquois palisaded village, c1500. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

NATIVE AMERICAN WIGWAM. The conical wigwam of the Ojibwa Native Americans, consisting of a framework of poles covered with sheets of birch bark. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

BEAVER HUNTING. Native Americans, wearing leather clothing against the cold and snow, break into a beaver dam. Illustration by C.W. Jeffreys

FRONTIER TRADING POST. A trading post on the colonial frontier. Drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

FRONTIER TRADING POST, 1785. A Native American trading fur for guns at a frontier trading post, 1785. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

TECUMSEH: THAMES, 1813. Tecumseh exhorting his warriors at the Battle of the Thames in 1813. Pen and ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys

FATHER JACQUES MARQUETTE. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet descending the Mississippi River: drawing by Charles W. Jefferys

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR, 1758. The Marquis de Montcalm and his French troops repulse the British attack led by General James Abercrombie at Fort Carillon (later Fort Ticonderoga), 8 July 1758

CANADA: EMIGRANTS, c1830. A middle-class British emigrant couple on the Canadian frontier, c1830. Drawing by C.W. Jefferys

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