FCA OSA PRCA
1909 - 2001
Canadian
Governor Douglas Leaving Fort Langley
oil on canvas, 1957
signed and on verso titled on the Hudson’s Bay Company Collection label
27 x 32 1/2 in, 68.6 x 82.5 cm
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CAD
Sold for: $34,250
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PROVENANCE
Collection of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada
LITERATURE
Hudson’s Bay Company, Company Calendar, 1958, reproduced
Andrea M. Paci, “Picture This: Hudson’s Bay Company Calendar Images and Their Documentary Legacy, 1913 – 1970,” master’s thesis, University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg, 2000, listed pages 119 and 125, titled as Governor Douglas Leaves Fort Langley after Proclaiming the Colony of British Columbia
David E. Mitchell, Lords & Proprietors: A Reader’s Guide to the Hudson’s Bay Company Charter, 2004, reproduced page 18
Karine Duhamel, “Untold Stories,” Canada’s History, April – May 2020, reproduced page 40
EXHIBITED
Loaned to Fort Langley, 1958 – 2003
This work by George Arbuckle depicts a ceremony held at Fort Langley on November 19, 1858, where Governor James Douglas and his party depart from the trading post after declaring the Colony of British Columbia. Fort Langley, on the north shore of the Fraser River, had been established in 1827 by the Hudson’s Bay Company. In 1858, after the discovery of gold in the interior, tens of thousands of miners poured into the area from the south, prompting a need for more law and order. The newly installed governor here meets with three First Nations representatives, possibly of the local Kwantlen Nation, their ceremonial dress and headwear elegantly rendered by Arbuckle.
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Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CAD
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