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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Fort Rouge and Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, from below Main Street Bridge
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The following is submitted by Patrick Dreier:
Edward Roper (1857-1891) was an English painter and illustrator who made several visits to Canada. Perhaps drawn West by the completion of the long awaited transcontinental railroad and the opening of Canada's first national park, Roper spent several months in British Columbia in 1887, and made his final trip in 1890, traveling through the Yukon.
In both Canada and the United States a spirit of national pride became associated with the (showing 500 of 1093 characters). |
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