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Official logo of the Hudson's Bay Company
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South Lake Community Futures Development Corporation
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Town of Georgina
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James Anderson Gallery at the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives, Keswick, Ontario2008
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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James Anderson Gallery at the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives, Keswick, Ontario2008
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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James Anderson Gallery at the Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives, Keswick, Ontario2008
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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The Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives recently received funds from the Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation, the Town of Georgina, and South Lake Community Futures Development Corporation to develop a permanent museum exhibit about James Anderson. Completed in September, 2008, the James Anderson Gallery is located inside the Noble House, a historic home built in 1857 and moved to the Pioneer Village in 1986.The various artefacts and documents that comprise the exhibit once belonged to James Anderson. They are personal mementoes of his extraordinary journeys, the many fascinating people he met along the way, and the beautiful places he visited throughout the nineteenth century.
The Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives is also in the process of developing an education program for Grade 6 students that corresponds to the physical exhibit. Together, the James Andersons Gallery, the education program, and this Community Memories project will provide audiences of all ages and grade levels with extensive access to the exciting story of James Anderson.
Some of the artefacts and documents that comprise the exhibit include:
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillworkPresented to James Anderson by his wife's Ojibway grandfather, this jacket is a wonderful example of nineteenth-century porcupine quillwork. Anderson's wife, Margaret Mackenzie, was the daughter of Chief Factor Roderick Mackenzie and a First Nations woman named Angelique.
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillworkCirca 1847
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillwork; detailCirca 1847
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillwork; detailCirca 1847
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillwork; detailCirca 1847
Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
Credits:Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
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Treatment Record for Anderson JacketIn 2008, the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) accepted James Anderson's jacket for treatment. According to the Treatment Record prepared by CCI conservators, the jacket was cleaned using soft brushes, gentle air suction, and powdered erasers. Seams in the leather that had come undone were re-stitched with polyester thread of a neutral colour, and the damaged fringe strands over the right shoulder were repaired using strips of smoke-tanned skin rubbed with dry pigments (a mix of terre verte and burnt umber) to match their colour.
Additionally, the porcupine quillwork was cleaned and the broken quills were pieced together using a thin film of Acryloid B-72. The various colours present on the porcupine quillwork were sampled and the dyes were analyzed using gas spectroscopy. Microfading tests were also conducted to assess the light stability of the dyes.
The dye analysis identified indigotin (indigo), carminic acid (cochineal), indigo carmine, and picric acid. A Pinaceae resin was also found on several quills, which may have been used as a finish on the dyed quills, or an adhesive. The conservator concluded that the dyes identified as part of the analysis are either natural in origin or have been used since the 18th century.
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Rawhide jacket embroidered with porcupine quillwork; detail of conservation workMay - August 2008
Credits:Treatment Record for leather jacket, 96557
Canadian Conservation Institute
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