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“Indian Wigwams of Birch Bark”, 1898

A painting of several bark huts in a clearing at the edge of a lake. Eight First Nations people in traditional dress are visible walking, talking, sitting in the door of a wigwam and cooking food over a campfire.

The Oshawa Museum

Overprint entitled Indian Wigwams of Birch Bark, created by artist Edward S. Shrapnel for Thomas Conant’s 1898 book Upper Canada Sketches. One of a very small number of surviving colonial-era works of art depicting the Oshawa area, this image has been prominently featured in many works of local history.