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This painting of an area only minutes away form the
artists home. It is titled Saskatchewan's Second Portage, because this
area was called this from the time of the fur traders in Saskatchewan.
There is a rail portage amid the trees on the right hand of the
painting where they would pull their canoes or boats across to the calmer
waters below the rapids. The fur traders, as well as people who travel
this route today, had to make a portage around the rapids which are a
short distance from this area, and are depicted in the painting titled Corneille
Rapids. This portage is called Second in Saskatchewan by the fur
traders who traveled into Saskatchewan, who came on the Churchill River,
then came across what is called Saskatchewan's first portage which is
named Frog Portage, which has four portages, although small, like a frog
jump. Saskatchewan's Second Portage would then lead them out of the
waters of Mirond Lake and into the waters of Corneille Lake. They then
would make another portage called Dog rapids. For more information
see the painting titled Dog Rapids. |
