'Near By Town' [Ottawa, Canada]

Mounted with ZBA4891 and ZBA4892 on page 21 of Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855).

Lithograph depicting a view near By Town of a bluff over a river, with a few buildings. By Town is now Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. Sited where the Rideau Canal meets the Ottawa River, it took its name from John By, the colonel of British engineers who was instrumental in constructing the canal. It was founded in 1827, incorporated in 1850 and was renamed Ottawa when incorporated as a city in 1855. See summary of Fanshawe's known American movements with ZBA4856: he took his flagship 'Royal Alfred' to Quebec one summer while C-in-C North America and West Indies, and toured the area (including a visit to Ottawa), but the exact date remains to be clarified. It is curious this image is still titled By Town, since the name had changed well before. [PvdM 2/11]

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ID:	ZBA4893
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Date made:	1870-1873; 1870-73
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	130 mm x 190 mm
Parts:	West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (Album) 'Court House, Berbice' (Print) (ZBA4857) 'Man of War Bay, Tobago' (Print) (ZBA4858) 'W. Point of Man of War Bay' [Tobago] (Print) (ZBA4859) 'Forte King George, Tobago.' (Print) (ZBA4860) 'Rockey Bay, Tobago.' [Rockly Bay] (Print) (ZBA4861) 'Courtam, Tobago.' [Courland] (Print) (ZBA4862) 'Bocca Grande, Trinidad' (Print) (ZBA4863) 'Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4864) Bay of Cariscoa, Grenada (Print) (ZBA4865) 'Fort George, Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4866) 'Berkshire Hill and Kingstown, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4867) 'Dorsetshire Hill, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4868) 'Roseau, Dominica' (Print) (ZBA4869) 'From Morne Fortune St. Lucia' (Print) (ZBA4870) The Pitons, St Lucia (Print) (ZBA4871) 'Pigeon Island' [St Lucia] (Print) (ZBA4872) 'From Shirley Heights, Antigua.' (Print) (ZBA4873) 'Dow's Hill, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4874) 'Falmouth Bay, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4875) 'Freemans Bay' [Antigua] (Print) (ZBA4876) 'Basseterre, St Kitts' (Print) (ZBA4877) 'Entrance of the Harbour of St. Thomas's' (Print) (ZBA4878) 'Kingston Bay, from near Port Royal, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4879) 'Off Morant, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4880) 'Kingston Bay from Ft. Nugent - Jamaica.' (Print) (ZBA4881) 'Port Antonio - Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4882) 'Rio Bueno, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4883) 'From Signal Hill - Bermuda' (Print) (ZBA4884) 'Iceberg' (Print) (ZBA4885) 'Staten Island' [New York ?] (Print) (ZBA4886) 'Fall at Montmorenci' [Montmorency, Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4887) '7 Miles west of Gannequis' [Gananoque, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4888) 'Lake St. Peters, St Laurence' [Lake St Peter, Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4889) 'Rivière de Loup' [Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4890) 'St Ann's Church' [possibly at Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4891) 'Looking up Niagara River from near Fort George' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4892) 'Near By Town' [Ottawa, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4893) 'Falls of Niagara' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4894) 'Straits of Sunda' (Print) (ZBA4895) 'Borneo. Looking down the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4896) 'Borneo. Looking up the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4897) 'N. Coast of Sumatra' (Watercolour) (ZBA4898) 'Looking up the Borneo River from Chermin Island' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4899) 'Coast of Borneo - Mr Brooke's Territory.' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4900) 'Village of the Stang Tribe' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4901) 'Sarawak' [Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4902) 'Keeney Balloo S.E.' [Mount Kinabalu, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4903) 'Village & head house of the Segu Tribe / on the Manuk or Segur River' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4904) 'From Quop Mountain / The Village of the Sunta Dyaks' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4905)

'Near By Town' [Ottawa, Canada]

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