You might try the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre at the
Art Gallery of Ontario

Ryan

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From: Michelle Lang <mlang1d.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:50:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Q: Sketch books of Canada before 1867

Have you contacted the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New
Brunswick? I worked there one summer and I recall them having early
Canadian watercolors of the local region.

Michelle Lang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Department of Art and Design
317 Humanities Building
University of Minnesota-Duluth
Duluth, MN 55812-2496
(218) 726-7321
mlang1d.umn.edu

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> From: "denis l" <french39hotmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:38:48 +0000
> Subject: research
> > I am searching for personal diaries, travel logs and sketch books;
> that would include drawings, sketches and watercolours; of Lower and
> Upper Canada made by the authors while traveling in the country
> before the Confederation on 1867. In the 17th, 18th and 19th century
> the people who travelled to the new colony did drawings and sketches
> of what they saw. I am interested in these actual drawings.
>

> I found some at the Archives of Ontario (Simcoe`s and Langton`s
> papers) as well as at the National Archives of Canada (Jane Ellice's
> and Millicent Chaplin's papers) and the Royal Ontario Museum
> (collection of drawings including canadian scenes) of Toronto. I
> contacted some British museums and search some databases on-line. I
> am hoping to get some informations on primary sources, located in
> England maybe, since the tradition of sketching landscapes in-situ
is
> well-rooted in the British tradition of watercolours.