Frances Anne Hopkins; oil on canvas 1869
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta (ACC. NO. 55.81.1)

The voyageur and the lakes and streams that were his highways during the heyday of the fur trade have been depicted with beauty and accuracy in Canoes in the Fog, Lake Superior, by Frances Anne Hopkins. This oil painting shows three North canoes entering the mist of the great inland sea. About twenty-five feet in length and manned by a crew of eight or nine, these birch-bark canoes were designed for rapid travel on streams broken by falls, or where portages were long and numerous. the artist had depicted herself as a passenger in the nearest canoe.

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