Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

1958.108.001

Artist

Sinclair, J.W.

Title

Yale 1882.

Date

1934.

Description

A framed oil painting of "Yale" as it was in 1882. The image shows the town, visible over a line of railway tracks which run through the painting. On the right hand side is the Fraser River, with a paddler wheeler at the dock. The artist, J.W. Sinclair signed their work on the bottom right, and dated it to 1934. It has a gilt frame.

People/Subject

Fraser River, stɑl̓əw̓, stó:lō

Landscape

Railway Track

Yale, B.C.

Yale is a village in BC. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District. In its heyday at the peak of the gold rush, it was reputed to be the largest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco. Yale played an important role in certain events of the gold rush period which threatened to throw B.C. over to American annexation, the Fraser Canyon War and McGowan's War, and it is to Yale that the Governor (on the first occasion) and the government officials (on the second - Begbie, Brew and Moody came to address American miners and take control of matters that threatened the rule of the Crown over the Mainland (or "New Caledonia" as it was called before the creation of the mainland colony).
Term Source: www.wikipedia.org

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