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Ernest Thompson Seton travelled to the Province of Manitoba to visit his brothers who lived west of Winnipeg along the newly layed CPR rail line. On his first visit in 1882 he actually deboarded at de Winton a station that comprised of a simple building or set of buildings just east of where the permanent station was re-located, in Carberry later. Seton arrived in the Carberry Plains near the Carberry Sandhills and discovered a plethora of birds, fauna and flora within walking distance. He set about observing and recording the natural surroundings but also left a record of the shelter he enjoyed and the of the homes of neighbours in the district. The sketches and watercolor paintings depict a simple rural landscape only recently turned to field cropping.

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Seton's watercolor. He arrived at his brother's homestead in 1882 and visited there periodically.
1882
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
Philmont Museum-Seton Memorial Library, Cimarron, New Mexico, USA

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Seton named his watercolour "Our old homestead at present", near Carberry, Manitoba
July 16, 1892
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
Philmont Museum,-Seton Memorial Library, Cimarron, New Mexico, USA

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Barnyard at De Winton and Cowshed at De Winton, Ernest Thompson Seton's watercolours of their farm
1892
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
Philmont Museum-Seton Memorial Library, Cimarron, New Mexico, USA

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Landscape by Ernest Thompson Seton, pen and ink
1883
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
Philmont Museum-Seton Memorial Library, Cimarron, New Mexico

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"My camp in Spruce" sketch from Seton's daily journal
August 23, 1892
Carberry Sandhills, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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The Lone Spruce Hill near Lake Chaska from Seton's daily journal
1892
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Seton's sketch of his neighbour, Jim Duff's house near Carberry with Bald Hill in background
August 21, 1892
Carberry, Manitoba, Canada


Credits:
The Seton Centre, 116 Main Street, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada