Collection search - Sleighing at Fort Douglas, 1823 [The Governor of Red River, driving his Family on the River in a Horse Cariole]

Christmas card no. (old item no., on verso): 62

For a copy of the print from which the reproduction was made, see MIKAN no. 3018037.
Fort Douglas was of the Hudson's Bay Company's first trading post in what is today Winnipeg. It was built by Scottish and Irish settlers in 1812 down river of the North West Company's (NWC) Fort Gibraltar.
During the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the NWC, the fort was burned twice by the Métis and employees of the NWC and rebuilt. After the union of 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company occupied Fort Gibraltar and renamed it Fort Garry. Fort Douglas remained the residence of the Governor of the settlement until it was destroyed in the flood of 1826.

After a work by Swiss artist Peter Rindisbacher.

Front cover, l.c.: SLEIGHING AT FORT DOUGLAS, 1823
Inside cover, left: The discovery and development of Western Canada is not one story / but many - of courage, enterprise, and high adventure. Not the least of these resulted in the first permanent colonization of the prairies - the / Red River Settlement - known also as Assiniboia. / The picture overleaf is reproduced from an original early Canadian print / depicting Capt. Robert Pelly, Governor of Assiniboia, in the year 1823, / driving his family in a horse carriole on the Red River - Fort Douglas in / the distance. The locality is now a part of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. / Picture - Courtesy, John Ross Robertson Collection.
Inside cover, right: THE DIRECTORS / AND MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF / A.E. AMES & CO. LIMITED / EXTEND TO YOU MOST CORDIAL / CHRISTMAS GREETINGS AND / BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR / CHRISTMAS 1952