This superb piece by John Philip Bainbridge depicts the peaceful Lake Saint-Charles, just a few kilometres north of Québec City. This lake was very popular with fishing enthusiasts in the mid-19th century. City folk and Indigenous residents of Lorette, now Wendake, fished side by side.
John Philip Bainbridge
Library and Archives Canada
Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Acc. No. 1983-47-104 - Date: 1841
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