| Canadian Heritage Gallery | |||
 Home
PageGalleries Nature |
Nature | Click on the thumbnail to view the image, and for information about ordering reproductions. | |
| Animals: Miscellaneous | |||
 |
Early Atlantic Whaling An exaggerated version of whaling off
Atlantic shores, in which Basques from Spain were active along the Labrador coast, from the
1550s onward. ID #10083 |
||
 |
Sea-Otter A 1778 painting of the sea-otter, the glossy-coated
animal that helped open a Pacific Coast fur trade. ID #10268 |
||
 |
Aurora Borealis Aurora borealis in the north, with a seal in the
foreground, c. 1860. Watercolour by Dennis Gale (1828-1903). ID #23251 |
||
 |
Buffalo Jump Plains tribes driving buffalo to death over chosen
sharp drops in the prairies, thereby creating a massive meat-supply at the bottom, as painted by
Alfred Miller, 1867. ID #10045 |
||
 |
Prairie Flowers Prairie flowers and a prairie dog, Broadview,
Assiniboia, Northwest Territories, 1887. Watercolour and gouache by Edward Roper
(1833-1909). ID #23225 |
||
 |
Young Walrus A young male walrus, found chiefly on eastern
Arctic shores. ID #10027 |
||
 |
Walrus Close-up of a walrus in Northwest
Territories ID #23019 |
||
 |
Iron-trapped fox A fox caught in an iron trap. ID #21673 |
||
 |
Polar Bear
ID #21976 |
||
 |
Fox A mature fox in a wintery southern Ontario
setting. ID #23024 |
||
 |
Peregrine Falcon A close-up frontal view of a peregrine
falcon. ID #23025 |
||
 |
Caribou A solitary caribou grazing in a northern meadow of
flowers, Northwest Territories. ID #23030 |
||
 |
Forest Dweller A canine inhabitant of the Canadian
north. ID #23063 |
||
 |
Raccoon The raccoon is a commonly seen forest inhabitant of the
Canadian Shield. ID #23081 |
||
 |
Moose A lonely moose on a lake at dawn. ID #23169 |
||
| Click on the thumbnail to view the image, and for information about ordering reproductions. | |||
| Top of Page Copyright © 1999 Canadian Heritage Gallery |
|||