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Appendix 2Kane’s Sketches in Watercolour of the Athabasca and Whirlpool River ValleysNumber, in GraphiteNumber and entry inCurrent LocationCatalogue NumberNumber in Catalogueand in Kane’s Hand,Kane’s Landscape Log,and Accession(confirmed as foundRaisonné of Paulin Upper Left of1846–1848Number of Sketchon Verso of Sketch)Kane’s Frontier,Sketch; and Fig. No.(Stark Museumfor Exhibition ined. J. Russell Harperin Essay11.84/4)Toronto (1848)(1971)31 (Fig. 2.9) 31 Athabuscu Riverwith the Rockemountens inthe distanceRoyal Ontario Museum946.15.131.1— IV–24532 (Fig.2.7) 32 jaspers lakeRoyal Ontario Museum190 Jasper’s Lake.IV–249with Meats rock946.15.130East-side(R. Mountains)33 (Fig. 2.5) 33. jaspers House. Stark MuseumPWC 25 31.78/136189 Jasper’s House.East-side (R. Mountains)IV–25034 (Fig. 2.12) 34 a prarey withRoyal Ontario Museum193–4IV–263mounten sheepe946.15.237Mountain Scenery.35 (Fig. 2.14) 35 le Rocks prareywith wild horsses36 (Fig. 2.16) 36 the Athabuscain the mountensStark MuseumWWC79 31.78/78Royal Ontario Museum946.15.328191 Laroque’s Prairie. IV–255187 Cascades. [sic] IV–26537 (Fig. 2.19) 37 a sketch in theRoyal Ontario Museum193–4IV–264mountens946.15.238Mountain Scenery.38 (Fig. 2.20) 38 a snow seeneStark Museum192 Snow SceneIV–266in the MountensWWC18 31.78/18in the Mountains.39 (Fig. 2.21) 39 the comateespunch bowlRoyal Ontario Museum946.15.239— IV–269I . S . M a c L a r e n 65
Author’s NoteI thank Bob Hallam and Tom Peterson, of Hinton, as well as Rod Wallace and MikeDillon, wardens in Jasper National Park, for generously sharing with me over the course ofthe past 15 years their intimate knowledge of the history of the upper Athabasca Riverwatershed; this essay has benefited measurably from their patient, unflaggingly engagedinterest in imparting that history. I am indebted as well to Peter Murphy for his commitmentto the dissemination of his academic and non-academic knowledge of the region,and to Eric Higgs for his abiding willingness to engage me in his research interest in therelationship between the human and non-human spheres of existence as they bear onecosystems past, present, and future.Notes1. Joseph Schafer, ed., “Documents relative to Warre and Vavasour’s Military Reconnoissance[sic] in Oregon in 1845–6,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 10 (1909): 35. Thedescription quoted is that by Sir George Simpson, inland governor of the Hudson’sBay Company.2. Henry James Warre Papers, LAC, MG 24, F71, MS vol. 19, 224; typed transcription,vol. 33, 1665.3. Frederick Merk, The Oregon Question: Essays in Anglo-American Diplomacy and Politics(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1967), 389; Overland toOregon in 1845: Impressions of a Journey across North America by H.J. Warre, ed. andintro. Madeleine Major-Frégeau (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976), 130.4. Warre’s sketch map of his route across Athabasca Portage at Athabasca Pass (LAC,Warre Papers, vol. 33, 1360–65) situates Campement du Fusil as described (1362–63).The encampment and portage are discussed in MacLaren, “‘Splendor sine occasu’:Salvaging Boat Encampment,” Canadian Literature nos. 170–171 (Autumn/Winter2001): 162–87.5. Both Peter Murphy’s and Zac Robinson’s essays, below (112, n12; 286, n58), mentionthe legend of the 17,000-foot-high pair of mountains. Nineteenth-century botanistDavid Douglas had exaggerated the heights of the peaks, which he named in 1827,and which he regarded as the highest peaks in North America.6. LAC, Warre Papers, MS vol. 19, 205–06; typed transcription, vol. 33, 1646–47.7. Henry James Warre, Jasper House, watercolour over graphite on paper, May 1846,Royal Ontario Museum, 956.83.7; Jasper House, watercolour and black ink overgraphite, May 1846, Royal Ontario Museum, 956.83.6. The two sketches are reproducedas figures 13 and 15 in Gerhard Ens and Barry Potyondi, “A History of theUpper Athabasca Valley in the Nineteenth Century,” Microfiche Report Series, no.225, Typescript (Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1986).8. Ens and Potyondi, “Upper Athabasca Valley,” 70–71.66 Henry James Warre’s and Paul Kane’s Sketches in the Athabasca Watershed, 1846
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