3-052-468 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Fishing on the Ristigouche, in Canada - drawing by Princess Louise in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1880. 'In our notice of the Winter Exhibition of the Old Water Colour Society we described the pleasant and clever sketches in which Princess Louise, holding her own even relatively to the high professional standard of Pall Mall East, records some of the scenes viewed during her sojourn in Canada. In one of these, a view on the Ottawa near a lumber village, we see some of the light boats of bark of the country still fashioned after the aboriginal pattern, something like a seal in shape, and looking when turned over on the bank like an elongated turtle, with a lady addressing a boatman - very likely "Laril," the half-bred, whose bronzed characteristic face appears in another drawing of the series, and who preserves so many traits of the red Indian, that the mind naturally reverts to the thrilling tales of Fenimore Cooper'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.