Thomas Fenwick: illustrer et promouvoir une région

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Thomas Fenwick: illustrer et promouvoir une région
Abstract
The Scottish-born and Toronto educated Thomas Fenwick (1830-1905), a Presbyterian minister and artist, documented the Gaspé town of Metis at the moment of its transformation from a sleepy shoreline village into one of the region’s most vibrant tourism destinations. Fenwick lived in Little Metis (the name of the town until it became Metis Beach) from 1863 to 1884. His drawings and illustrations of this part of the Gaspé region, which appeared in such journals as the Montreal-based Canadian Illustrated News and L'Opinion Publique in the 1870s, enticed upper middle class Canadians to holiday in Metis. The author points out that Metis was transformed by a building boom in the 1870s, led by J.W. Dawson (1820-1899), principal of McGill University, whose cottage in Metis was completed in 1876. The author's family also owned property in Metis, including his great-grandmother, the Montreal railroad heiress Elsie Meighen Reford (1872-1967), who took possession of her uncle's rustic Estevan Lodge on the Metis River in 1918, and by 1926 had transformed it into a show case garden of world-renown.
Publication
Magazine Gaspésie
Volume
No. 192
Pages
12-14
Date
Août-Novembre 2018
Language
fr
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Citation
Reford, Alexander. “Thomas Fenwick: illustrer et promouvoir une région.” Magazine Gaspésie No. 192 (November 2018): 12–14. https://magazinegaspesie.ca/pages/extra-no-192.
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