Postcard – The Steamer Marquis, Front


Title: Postcard – The Steamer Marquis, Front
Creator: Unknown
Subject: 1885, Resistance, Métis, Military, Steamer, Postcard
Description: This image is of a postcard of the Steamer Marquis. This item, part of A.C.D. Pigott’s post 1885 personal correspondence, is part of the A.C.D. Pigott Collection, which was acquired by the Gabriel Dumont Institute in October 1991 by the Ted Pappas family of Vancouver, British Columbia. The collection includes: Louis Riel’s English-French dictionary, Lieutenant Colonel Pigott’s 1885 Resistance battlefield manuscript, and a number of artifacts taken off the battlefield including: an inscribed watch, a pipe, a bullet maker and a buffalo powder horn (both from the Métis trenches), a carved wooden container taken from Big Bear’s camp, a First Nations decorative bracelet and horsehair braiding, which may have been traded for food by somebody captured by the Boulton’s Scouts.
Publisher: Gabriel Dumont Institute
Date: 1910
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Language: English
Date of Copyright: October 26, 2004
Coverage: Saskatchewan
GDI Media Location: DVD 2
GDI Media Filename: onloc_17.jpg

Related Categories

Category Resistance
Category Pigott Document Collection