Jeff Thomas
Mapping Iroquoia: Cold City
Frieze
List of Works with Extended Captions
Section1.1.
Ground Zero, light backed panel
Ottawa, Ontario, Samuel de Champlain monument, 1992, unveiled in
1915, commemorates the 300th anniversary of Champlain’s second trip
on the Ottawa River. Search coordinates: Longitude
N45 25.764 & Latitude W75 42.087
Section1.2. Ottawa, Ontario, Samuel de Champlain monument,
1992, “The Indigenous Navigator.” Search coordinates: Longitude N45 25.764
& Latitude W75 42.087
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2.1. City Hall, Buffalo, New York,
Elmwood Street
view of frieze. The prototype for Cold
City Frieze was inspired by the Hiawatha Wampum Belt and the city hall
architectural frieze. Both have a similar configuration: five symbols or
sections, a rectangle physical shape, and a historical story.
Search
coordinates: Longitude N42 53.203 & Latitude W78 52.784.
Section 2.2. Cold City Frieze wampum panel
Section 2.3. Book, “In The
Valley Of The Six Nations”
Section 2.4. Fold out map inside the book: Plan shewing the Lands granted to The Six
Nations Indians situated on each side of the Grand River or Ouse; commencing on Lake Erie
and containing about 674,910 acres. Copy J.G. C. [with an
extract from the Deed of Feoffment], 7th December
1792. Library and Archives Canada/ H3/410/Grand/1792, reproduction printed
on 17” x 22” paper, with photo corners
Section 2.5. Fold out map in book: Plan of the Grand River & location of 6 Nations of Indians, as
found settled by the Rev'd Rt.Lugger,
February 20th, 1828. Library and Archives Canada/ H3/410/Grand/1828m, reproduction printed
on 17” x 22” paper, with photo corners
Section 2.6. Home/land & Security wampum panel
The following series of prints will be
printed on 17” x 22” paper, all prints have photo corners
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3.1. Founding member
of the Red Robe society, Hendrick (Theyanoguin) 1710, by John Verelst,
Library and Archives Canada/C-092415
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3.2. Founding member of the Red Robe Society,
Brant, 1710, by John Verelst, Library and Archives
Canada/C-092417
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3.3. Red Robe Society member, Joseph Brant. Book
cover, “In The Valley of the Six Nations,” National Gallery of
Canada_.5777
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3.4. Red Robe Society,
new Red Robe Society member, Port
Maitland, Ontario, 2008, looking north up the Grand River. Search
coordinates: Longitude N42 51.387 &
Latitude W79 34.715
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3.5. Red Robe, Toronto, Ontario,
2008, 45 Wellesley Street East,
Wellesley subway station
platform. Search coordinates: Longitude 43 39.547 & Latitude W 79 23.831
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3.6. Red Robe, Mississauga,
Ontario, 2004, Petro-Canada Lubricants Centre, Southdown
Road. Search coordinates: Longitude N43
29.940 & Latitude W79 36.831
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3.8. Red Robe, Oshawa, Ontario,
Beavers by Mary Anne Barkhouse, outside The Robert
McLaughlin Gallery. Search coordinates: Longitude N43 53.701 & Latitude W78 51.932
Section 3.9. Red
Robe, Ottawa, Ontario, 2009, National Gallery of Canada,
looking for Joseph Brant. Search
coordinates: Longitude N45 25.743 &
Latitude W75 41.824
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3.10. Red Robe, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Day 2007, Constitution Square.
Search coordinates: Longitude
N45 25.075 & Latitude W75 42.260
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3.11. Red Robe, Ottawa, Ontario,
2004, Department of Justice building. Search coordinates: N45 25.285 W75 42.261
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3.12. Red Robe, Ottawa, Ontario,
2005, “What is your citizenship? I am a North American [Indian],” 401 Windmill Lane and
Innes Road.
Search coordinates: Longitude N45 24.768 & Latitude W75 36.701
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3.13. Red Robe, Ottawa, Ontario,
behind the Supreme Court of Canada.
Search coordinates: Longitude N45 25.285 & Latitude W75 42.261
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3.14. Red Robe, Brandon, trackside, Manitoba, Canada Day
2005. Search coordinates: Longitude N49 51.055 & Latitude W99 55.010
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3.15. Red Robe, Gatineau, Quebec, 2009, Champlain Lookout at Gatineau
Park. Search coordinates: Longitude N45 30.491 & Latitude W75 54.771
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3.16. Red Robe, Gatineau,
Quebec, outside the Department of
Indian and Northern Affairs building. Search coordinates: Longitude
N45 25.510 & Latitude W75 43.261
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3.17. Red Robe, North Bay, Ontario, 2006, Temiskaming
& Northern Ontario #503. Search
coordinates: Longitude N46 18.528 & Latitude W79 27.866
Note:
Official eastern terminus of Pacific Railway near present site of North Bay, later named Callandor, now Bonfield, to
Pacific 2500 miles, Callandar
was first an arbitrary location in the wilderness, a spot on the map 1881.
Question: Where was the first spike struck?
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3.18. London, Ontario, 2007, Museum of Ontario
Archaeology, new longhouse. Search coordinates: Longitude N43 00.824 &
Latitude W 81 18.351
Note: The Museum of Ontario Archaeology is a Canadian museum devoted to
the study, display, and interpretation of the human occupation of Southwestern Ontario over the past 11,000 years. The
Museum is located beside the Lawson
Prehistoric Iroquoian
Village, a site occupied
by the Neutral Iroquoians in the 16th century A.D.
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3.20. Red Robe, Scranton,
Pennsylvania, 2004, Steamtown National Historic Site, 4 Lackawanna Avenue. Search
coordinates: GPS reading not taken
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3.21. Red Robe, London, England, 2006, street view with three Onlookers,
King Street
to Covent Gardens. Search coordinates: GPS reading
not taken
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3.22. Red Robe, London England,
2006, St. Paul’s
Churchyard, Covent Garden at King Street. Search
coordinates: 51°30′41″N 0°7′27″W. Note: The Four Indian
Kings were here in 1710
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3.23. Sightseeing. Albany, New York, Official seal of Albany. Search
coordinates: Longitude N42 39.253 & Latitude W73 44.848
ASSIDUITY
(diligence) Dutchman, Native American, Beaver
Tri-Centennial Park,
Broadway & Montgomery Street, Quackenbush Square, facing Hudson River,
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3.24. Sightseeing. Brantford, Ontario, Joseph
Brant Monument.
Search coordinates: Longitude N45 25.458 & Latitude W75 41.695
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3.26. Sightseeing. Orillia, Ontario, 2002, Samuel de Champlain monument, Couchiching Beach Park
at Lake Simcoe. Detail: a Black Robe and two indigenous men. Sculptor is Vernon March. Search coordinates: Longitude N44 36.990
& Latitude W79 24.801
… It was erected in 1925 for the 300th
anniversary of French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s visit to the area.
Champlain was looking for a shorter passage to the West
Indies. He explored and mapped the St. Lawrence waterway and parts
of the Great Lakes, built the first settlement in New France, Quebec,
and established fur trading with native peoples. He befriended the Hurons, pushed for their christianization
and participated in their war against the Iroquois tribes. He
became governor of New France until his
death in 1635
Erected
to Commemorate the Advent into Ontario
of the White Race Under the Leadership of Samuel Champlain
The Intrepid French Explorer and Colonizer who, with fifteen companions
arrived in these parts in the summer of 1615 And spent the following winter
with the Indians making his headquarters at Cahiague
The Chief Village of the Huron which was near this plaque. A symbol of goodwill
between the French and the English Speaking Peoples of Canada
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3.27. Sightseeing. St. Boniface, Manitoba, 2002, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye Monument, avenue Tache, opposite St. Boniface Hospital. Search coordinates: Longitude
N49 53.107 & Latitude W97 07.417
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3.28. Sightseeing. Washington,
DC, 2003, Union Station,
Christopher Columbus monument, opened 1907, Indian Reaching for his Arrow.
Search coordinates: Longitude N38 53.808 & Latitude W77 00.389
“To
The Memory Of Christopher Columbus Where High Faith
And Indomitable Courage Gave To Mankind A New World.”
Dedicated June 8, 1912, by artist Lorado Z Taff
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3.30. Sightseeing. Chicago, Illinois, 2009, Michigan Avenue
Bridge, full view of
frieze. Search coordinates: Longitude N41 53.302 & Latitude W87 37.490
Note: Bas-relief
sculpture depicts the 1812 Massacre, located on bridge house, former site of Fort Dearborn
(1803-1812)
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3.31. Sightseeing. Hamilton, Ontario, 2004, Hamilton, Port Authority building, 605 James Street North. Search
coordinates: Longitude N43 16.398 & Latitude W79 51.716
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3.31. Sightseeing. Montreal, Quebec, 2007, Associated Screen News Bldg., 5252 Boul
de Maisonneuve, drive-by view. Search
coordinates: Longitude N45 28.387 & Latitude W73 36.335
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3.34. Sightseeing. Vancouver, B.C.,
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, 900 West Georgia Street. Search coordinates: GPS reading not
taken
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3.35. Sightseeing. Ottawa,
Ontario, 2000, Parliament Hill,
Centre Block, carved Indian. Search coordinates: Longitude N45 25.476 &
Latitude W75 41.977
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3.36. Sightseeing. Montreal, Quebec, Place d Armes, “EXPLOIT DE LA
PLACE D’ ARMES,” view of fountain with bas relief panel. 2001. Search
coordinates: Longitude N45 30.291 & Latitude W73 33.460
Paul De Chomedey
De Maisonneuve Killing the Chief with his own Hands,
March 1644, Sculpture, Louis-Philippe Hebert, 1850-1917
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3.37. Sightseeing. Toronto, Ontario, 1999, Air Canada Centre (Old Post Office frieze), Bay and
Lakeshore. Search coordinates: Longitude N43 38.603 & Latitude W79
22.684
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3.38. Sightseeing. Mississauga, Ontario, 2008, Hiawatha
Park. Search coordinates:
Longitude N43 33.515 & Latitude W79 34.316
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3.39. Sightseeing. Kelowna, British
Columbia, Hiawatha RV Park.
Search coordinates: Longitude N 49 50.842 & Latitude W 119 29.195
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3.40. Sightseeing. Toronto, Ontario, Royal
Ontario Museum,
hoarding wall with Paul Kane painting reproduction, Indian Camp, Colville, Interior Salish. Search coordinates: Longitude
N43 40.122 & Latitude W79 23.644
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3.41. Sightseeing. Winnipeg, Manitoba,
2005, Street Mural by aboriginal students, located on Canadian National railroad bridge, 112-134
Pioneer Avenue area. Search coordinates: Longitude
N49 53.616 & Latitude W97 08.079
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3.42. Sightseeing. Deep
River, Ontario, 2008,
Highway 17, Ryan's Campsite Site. Search coordinates: Longitude N46 05.830
& Latitude W77 29.632
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3.43. Sightseeing. Highway 7, Ontario,
2002, High Spring Trading Post &
Indian Village,
Biz List, at First Road.
Search coordinates: Longitude N44 27.713 & Latitude W77 44.519
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3.44. Sightseeing. Brantford,
Ontario, Bank of Montreal with view of crest and blue sky, George Street. Search coordinates:
Longitude N43 08.516 & Latitude W80 15.732
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3.45. Sightseeing. Montreal, Quebec, Bank of Montreal, Place d’ Armes, bank crest. Search
coordinates: Longitude N45 30.291 & Latitude W73 33.460
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3.46. Sightseeing. Waterloo,
Ontario, 3008, Bank of Montreal,
new bank with old crest on lawn, Ottawa
Street North and King St. East. Search coordinates: N43
26.520 W80 28.296
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3.47. Sightseeing. Victoria, British Columbia, former Toronto Dominion Bank, now Legacy Art Gallery and Café,
Victoria, 630 Yates Street, bank crest detail.
Search coordinates: Longitude N 48 25.592 & Latitude W 123 21.983
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3.48. Sightseeing. Hamilton, Ontario, 1999, former Bank of
Montreal with full view of bank
façade, Main and James Streets.
Search coordinates: Longitude N43 15.318 & Latitude W79 52.177
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3.49. Sightseeing. Sterling, Ontario, 1997, former Bank of Montreal, Mill Street, built in 1909. Search
coordinates: Longitude N44 17.778 & Latitude W77 32.845
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3.50. Sightseeing. Paris, France, 2010, Fountaine
Capri, The Fontaine de l'Observatoire, located E
south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th
arrondissement of Paris. Search coordinates: GPS reading not taken
The
“four parts of the world” are represented African, American Indian, Asian, and
Caucasian women. Detail of American Indian woman
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3.51. Sightseeing. Manhattan,
New York, 2001, Cigar Store
Indian, Barclay Rex Tobacconist storefront, 75 Broad Street. Search coordinates: GPS
reading not taken
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3.52. Sightseeing. London, England, 2003, James J. Fox Cigar Merchant Cigar, Old Honesty, 19 St James's Street.
Search coordinates: GPS reading not taken
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3.53. Sightseeing. Ottawa,
Ontario, 1999, Beaded Dreams
store, Bank Street.
Search coordinates: Longitude N45 24.745 & Latitude W75 41.632
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3.54. Sightseeing. Boston,
Massachusetts, 2010, The Museum
of Fine Arts, front lawn, Appeal to the Great Spirit by Cyrus Dallin bonze cast in 1909. Search coordinates: Longitude
N42 20.467 & Latitude W71 51.716
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3.55. Sightseeing. Chicago,
Illinois, Grant Park, 2009, the
intersection of Congress Drive
and Michigan Avenue. The Spearman, by Ivan Mestrouics, bronze, 1912-1927. Search coordinates: Longitude
N41 52.547 & Latitude W87 37.432
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3.56. Sightseeing. Chicago, Illinois, Grant Park, 2009, the
intersection of Congress Drive
and Michigan Avenue. The Bowman (the bow and arrow are
missing) by Ivan Mestrouics, bronze, 1912-1927. Search coordinates: Longitude
N41 52.547 & Latitude W87 37.432
The Bowman and The
Spearman, also known as Indians,
are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza,
at the intersection of Congress
Drive and Michigan Avenue in Grant Park, Chicago, United
States
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3.57. Sightseeing. Winnipeg,
Manitoba, 1990, Toronto Dominion
Bank demolition site, (Indian’s arm is from the bank crest) Portage Avenue and Notre Dame Ave. Search
coordinates: Longitude N49 53.708 & Latitude W97 08.364