Photo 1: Chaudière Falls, artist unknown, watercolour and pencil, 1836-1842 / Photo 2: Union Bridge, Chaudiere Falls, Ottawa River by John Burrows; water colour, pen and ink; 1827 / Photo 3: River Ottawa, Fall of La Chaudière, close to Bytown, Upper Canada March 1839, by Henry Francis Ainslie / Photo 4: Quebec from the Chaudiere Bridge, artist unknown, pen and brown ink, 1837 / Photo 5: View of Bytown (Ottawa) above the Chaudière, by John Burrow, watercolour over pencil, 1832 / Photo 6: Chaudiere Falls, Ottawa, from the Bytown Banks, watercolour, Philip John Bainbrigge, July 1838 (Library and Archives of Canada)
Gwen Tuinman is a novelist, born and raised in rural southern Ontario. She draws on her psychology background to create complex characters shaped by nature, nurture and circumstance. Her storytelling is influenced her interest in bygone days.
Thank you, Brett. I enjoyed collecting them. I’m currently researching for a new novel which will be set in the early to mid 1800s during the timber boom. I’d read that the falls look much different today than they did originally. This is due to manmade changes. I thought that sourcing artwork might give me a feel for the lay of the land.
Gwen Tuinman is a novelist, born and raised in rural southern Ontario. She draws on her psychology background to create complex characters shaped by nature, nurture and circumstance. Her storytelling is influenced by an interest in bygone days. Gwen lives near Toronto with her husband and two chickens.
January 16, 2017 at 11:58 am
Terrific images. I love that they are all such different images of the same general area.
January 16, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Thank you, Brett. I enjoyed collecting them. I’m currently researching for a new novel which will be set in the early to mid 1800s during the timber boom. I’d read that the falls look much different today than they did originally. This is due to manmade changes. I thought that sourcing artwork might give me a feel for the lay of the land.
January 22, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Great images Gwen, I love the third one with the trees and the wild water, very atmospheric.
January 24, 2017 at 4:27 pm
Wonderful! My next novel will be set in this general area. It would be interesting to visit there and take photos from the same perspective.