Gulf Art Work

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is a dynamic region and capturing its transformation over time can take many forms. While our project focuses on its environmental governance post-1970, other methods of documenting the Gulf’s transformation include its history, economy, music, food, language and culture. Here, we present images of human interaction in the Gulf of St. Lawrence depicting life in an earlier time making us pause to reflect on matters. The images selected are but a small sample of the significant Gulf art work part of various “Canadiana” art collections in museums across Canada that we encourage you to visit.

Fish curing, Percé Rock, Gaspé, QC, painting, 1889, copied ca.1910
C. G.
print| about 1910, 20th c. | Ink on paper mounted on card – Halftone | 13 x 19 cm
Gift of Mr. Stanley G. Triggs
McCord Museum   MP-0000.1220.6

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




Ice Boat Service Northumberland Strait between Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island and Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick  — Service  de bateaux à glace, détroit de Northumberland entre Cape Traverse, Î.-P.-É. et Cape Tormentine, Nouveau-Brunswick

Cyrus Lewis

about 1885, 19th c. | albumen print mounted on card | 20.6 x 27.8 cm

Gift of Fannie Sampson and Etta Sampson, 1969

New Brunswick Museum – Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick, 1989.64.2
www.nbm-mnb.ca




A New and Accurate Map of the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Briton, St. John and Anticosta together with the Neighbouring Countries of Nova Scotia, Canada
Eman Bowen
about 1745, 18th c. | Engraving on paper, hand coloured | 34 x 41 cm
New Brunswick Museum – Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick, 1988.30.12

www.nbm-mnb.ca




Lingan Bar beach, Cape Breton, NS, about 1914

Wm. Notman & Son

photograph | about 1914, 20th c. | Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process | 20 x 25 cm
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd.

McCord Museum   VIEW-5146
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




W. O. K. Ross before crossing the Strait of Belle Isle,

Point Amour, Labrador, NF, 1908

Anonyme - Anonymous

photograph |1908, 20th c. | 20 x 25 cm

Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Gelatin silver process
Gift of Miss Sybil Ross
McCord Museum   MP-1986.9.2.23

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




Harbour and Shore at Caraquet, New Brunswick -

Le port et la grève de Caraquet, Nouveau-Brunswick

Joseph Courtois

photograph / photographie | c. / v. 1900 | silver print / épreuve argentique | 13 x 17.7 cm

William Francis Ganong Collection / Collection William Francis Ganong

New Brunswick Museum – Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick, 1987.17.680.2

www.nbm-mnb.ca

 




Fishing boats, Magdalen Islands, QC, about 1930
Anonyme - Anonymous
photograph | glass lantern slide| about 1930, 20th c. | 8 x 10 cm
Silver salts and transparent ink on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
Gift of Mr. Stanley G. Triggs
McCord Museum   MP-0000.25.33

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




Tignish harbour, PE, 1910
Wm. Notman & Son

photograph | 1910, 20th c. | Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process |12 x 17 cm
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd.
McCord Museum   VIEW-4811

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




Jardine Brothers, 1880

William Howard Yorke, Canadian, 1847 - 1921
painting | oil on canvas | 51.5 x 86 cm | Webster Museum Foundation purchase, 1966

New Brunswick Museum – Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick, 1966.28

www.nbm-mnb.ca

 




Réfugiés acadiens

Camille Cormier

Musée acadien de l’Université de Moncton - 1986.18

https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-maum/




A View of the Pierced Island, a Remarkable Rock in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (...)

Hervey Smyth

print | 1760, 18th c. | 42 x 65 cm | Gift of Mr. David Ross McCord

McCord Museum   M2480

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/




Fishing Scene, Souris, P.E.I.
Artist: Not credited

postcard | about 1907, 20th c. | albumen print carte-de-visite | 9 x 13.5 cm
Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson de l’Université de Moncton – CP817

https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/




Cape Brulé, Shediac, N.B.
McCoy Printing Co.

postcard | about 1907, 20th century | albumen print carte-de-visite | 8.7 x 13.8 cm
Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson de l’Université de Moncton – CP359

https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/

 

 

This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.