HBC donates historic mural to Manitoba Museum
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) has donated The Pioneer at Fort Garry, a 16.5 x 3-m (54 x 9.8-ft) oil-on-canvas mural that has been a fixture of its downtown Winnipeg store since the 1920s, to the Manitoba Museum.
As the mural has been seen by generations of shoppers, it is now deeply ingrained in the city’s culture. It was painted in 1927 by Adam Sheriff Scott with the assistance of E.T. Adney and depicts the Pioneer, a sternwheeler, delivering goods below Fort Garry in 1861.
“The Manitoba Museum is extremely grateful for this most recent artifact donation,” says Claudette Leclerc, the museum’s CEO. “The historical significance is twofold; not only does it depict a highly accurate representation of the fur trade, but it was also such a prominent feature in the store that it has become an important part of our city’s history.”
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