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FINLAYSON, Isobel Graham
- Naissance
- London, England, 1811
- Décès
- London, England, 1890
- Notice biographique
- Born in London, England, Isobel Graham Finlayson (née Isobel Graham Simpson) was the daughter of Geddes McKenzie Simpson and Frances Hume Hawkins. Sister to Frances Ramsay Simpson, wife of Governor George Simpson, Finlayson came from a large family. On 10th November 1838, she married Duncan Finlayson, the Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor and Governor of Assiniboia, at St. Leonard’s Church in Bromley, Middlesex. Due to health concerns, Finlayson waited until June 1839 before making the long journey from England to Red River, Manitoba. From June 6, 1840 until September 1, 1840 Finlayson kept a notebook recording her travel experiences and made seven accompanying illustrations in pencil of First Nations people she encountered. During the first leg of her trip, from England to York Factory, Finlayson was accompanied by James and Letitia Hargrave; accounts of their meeting are also mentioned in the published letters of Mrs. Hargrave. From York Factory onwards, Finlayson was accompanied by her husband to their new home in the Red River Settlement. Between 1844 and 1859, the Finlaysons lived in Lachine, Québec until they returned to London following Duncan Finlayson’s retirement from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1859. Finlayson survived her husband by almost 30 years, and though she never had children of her own, she had become second mother to her sister’s children after Frances Simpson’s death in 1853.
- Médias
- Drawing
- Pen and Ink
- Lieux de conservation des dossiers et archives
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Provincial Archives of Manitoba
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Documents sur l'artiste- "?" American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody and Essex Museum, 12 (1952): 167.
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http://www.abdn.ac.uk/materialhistories/proceedings.php. - Brown, Jennifer S. H. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
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- Buss, Helen M. "The Dear Domestic Circle." http://lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol14_1/&filename=Buss.htm Studies in Canadian Literature, 1989.
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- Hargrave, Letitia Mactavish and Margaret Arnett MacLeod. The letters of Letitia Hargrave. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1947.
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- Project Muse. "York Boat Journal." Canadian Historical Review 1952.
- Robbins, John Everett, ed. Encyclopedia Canadiana. Ottawa: Canadiana Company of Canada, Grolier Society of Canada, 1957.
- Speake, Jennifer. Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. New York & London: Taylor and Francis Group, 2003.
- The Manitoba Historical Society. "Isobel Graham Finlayson Simpson (1811-1890)." http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/simpson_igf.shtml 2009.
- Tippett, Maria. By a Lady. Toronto: Viking, 1992.
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- Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in fur-trade society, 1670-1870. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
- Van Kirk, Sylvia. "Isobel Graham Finlayson." Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11 Toronto, Ont.; Quebec City: University of Toronto/Université Laval,, 2003
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/simpson_isobel_graham_11E.html.. - Venema, Kathleen. "Letitia Mactavish Hargrave and Hudson's Bay Company Domestic Politics." Recalling Early Canada. Calgary: University of Alberta, 2005.
- Venema, Kathleen and Cecily Devereux, eds. "Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondence Across the British Empire, Volume 3: Canada." http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/women_writing_home_1700_1920 Pickering and Chatto, 2006.
- Warkentin, Germaine. Canadian Exploration Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Documents rédigés par l'artiste- Finlayson, Isobel Graham. Note Book, 1840-1845. Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company Archive, 1845.
- Finlayson, Isobel Graham. "Indians traveling in winter (Illustration)." Beaver Hudson's Bay Company, 303 (Spring 1973): 23.
- Finlayson, Isobel Graham. "York Boat Journal." Beaver Hudson's Bay Company, 282 (Dec. 1951): 32-7.
- Finlayson, Isobel Graham. "York Boat Journal." Beaver Hudson's Bay Company, 282 (Sept. 1951): 32-5.
- Finlayson, Isobel Graham. "York Boat Journal." www.turtle-island.com/files/isobel_finlayson_beaver_journal_1.pdf 1951.
