Drawing – Page 2 – PRIMARY SOURCES DATABASE

Mi’kmaq hunter representation

April 30, 2024

0

A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi'kmaq people. ...

Inside a wigwam

April 30, 2024

0

A drawing of the inside of a wigwam, which is the traditional dwelling used in the daily life of an Algonquian family. ...

Indigenous family travelling by canoe

April 30, 2024

0

A watercolour by Denis Gale depicting an indigenous family travelling by canoe through Algonquian territory around 1860. ...

Arrival of Jacques Cartier at Stadacona, 1535

April 30, 2024

0

A Victorian-era watercolour illustration of Jacques Cartier's arrival in Stadacona, which was traditional Iroquoian territory in the 1500s. Note that the Iroquois had boats and were fishing in that area, but that they were known to fish even further...

Miélot translates Latin miracles

April 29, 2024

0

An illustration demonstrating the education during the Middle Ages. ...

Loix des Douzes Tables

April 26, 2024

0

The Twelve Tables Rome's First Legal Code is Drawn up by a Commission Number 36 in Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique, Paris, an VIII. ...

Luther lässt 95 sätze gegen den ablass an die scholsskirche zu Wittenberg anschlagen, 1517

April 26, 2024

0

A small crowd has gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95 theses, protesting the practice of the sale of indulgences, to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. ...

No taxation without representation

April 26, 2024

0

Print shows citizens in Boston burning proclamations from England pertaining to the stamp act of 1765, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. ...

Part of a Palisaded Huron Iroquois Village

April 24, 2024

0

Cartier and Sagard, in their narratives, gave us a good idea of the construction of a typical palisaded Huron-Iroquois village. This modern sketch by Charles W. Jefferys in 1942 illustrates what it was like. ...

Jules-Paul Tardivel (1895-1921)

April 24, 2024

0

Jules-Paul Tardivel (post-Confederation ultramontanist nationalist) (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American–Québécois writer and a significant promoter of Quebec nationalism. In the 1880s, he founded La Verité, a weekly newspaper e...