The End of the Portage
Municipality/Province: Saskatoon, SK
Memorial number: 47010-063
Type: Painting
Address: 411 11th Street East
Location: Nutana Collegiate
GPS coordinates: Lat: 52.1188098 Long: -106.6615567
Submitted by: Nutana Collegiate.
In March of 1919, students at Nutana Collegiate (called Saskatoon Collegiate Institute until 1923) announced they would establish a memorial for the 29 alumni soldiers who died in the First World War. Principal Alfred J. Pyke instead suggested creating a Memorial Art Gallery that consisted exclusively of paintings by Canadian artists. They purchased one painting by a different artist for each fallen soldier.
Thomas Wilberforce Mitchell's The End of the Portage was acquired in 1920 and dedicated to Private William Beaton.
Inscription found on memorial
PRESENTED BY
THE PAULINE CLUB
"THE END OF THE PORTAGE"
BY THOMAS MITCHELL ?
IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM DOBIE BEATON
Street view
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