The landscape of Ernest Lamarque : artist, surveyor and Renaissance man, 1879-1970
"At the age of sixteen, Ernest Lamarque travelled from England to North America, to begin a life as a Victorian adventurer. Born in 1879 and orphaned at age twelve, he would go on to become an artist, a writer and a surveyor, creating some of the earliest visual records of the people of remote regions of Canada. At seventeen, Lamarque started working as a clerk at Hudson's Bay Company posts in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the North...
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