Resources – Page 9 – PRIMARY SOURCES DATABASE

Wedding Party, Lewiston, 1897

April 24, 2024

0

This photograph not only illustrates the large size of Franco-American families, which could typically include more than twelve children, but also the tight living conditions endured by many early immigrants. Enterprising landlords or even the compa...

War Fears : Bush Farm near Chatham

April 24, 2024

0

An Ontario bush farm in 1838. The tree stumps have not yet rotted enough to be removed. "Besides the destruction of lives, the burning of houses, the plunder of cattle, and all other species of moveable property, it [war] would throw back the state ...

Debate on languages during the first Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

April 24, 2024

0

This image shows the painting Débat sur les langues lors de la première Assemblée législative du Bas-Canada le 21 janvier 1793 (Debate on languages during the first Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, January 21, 1793), by Charles Huot. ...

John Molson (1763-1836)

April 24, 2024

0

John Molson (December 28, 1763 – January 11, 1836) was an English-born brewer and entrepreneur in colonial Quebec and Lower Canada. He was the founder of Molson Brewery. .... John Molson was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. ...

William McGillivray

April 24, 2024

0

Scottish-born fur trader who succeeded his uncle as the last chief partner of the North West Company. He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and afterwards was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. In 179...

Joseph Masson (1791-1847)

April 24, 2024

0

Joseph Masson (January 5, 1791 – May 15, 1847) was Canadian businessman, who is considered the first French Canadian millionaire. Masson was Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1834 to 1838. ...

Veduta dell’Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from: ‘Vedute di Roma’ (Views of Rome)

April 19, 2024

0

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...

Roman Calendar

April 19, 2024

0

Rendering and an actual image of the Fasti Antiates, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic, the oldest archaeologically attested local Roman calendar and the only such calendar known from before the Julian calendar reforms. (Drawing ...

Pantheon in Rome

April 19, 2024

0

Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior. ...

Mausoleum of Augustus

April 19, 2024

0

Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...