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| Title: |
David, Dennis, and Darwin Fisher with the Louis Riel Diary, July 1974 |
| Subject: |
Riel, Louis, Diary, Auction, Fisher, Dennis, David, Darwin, Rheaume, Eugene |
| Description: |
This image is of David, Dennis, and Darwin Fisher with Louis Riel`s diary in July 1974. This photograph file relate to the auction of Louis Riel`s Diary in 1971 in Montréal. In 1971, Dennis Fisher accompanied Eugène Rhéaume who bought Riel`s diary for more than $26,000 in order to keep it from leaving Canada. For a brief period in the 1970s, Dennis Fisher briefly had the diary in his home, and made a photocopy of it. This photograph is part of the Dennis and Jean Fisher Collection. This collection contains archaeological artifacts taken from the battlefields of the 1885 Resistance as well as Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), Cumberland House (Saskatchewan) and St. Peter’s Mission, Montana. The collection also includes various artifacts and ephemera relating to the 1885 Resistance and Gabriel Dumont. |
| Date: |
1974 |
| Type: |
Image |
| Date of Copyright: |
November 23, 2012 |
| Coverage: |
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| GDI Media Filename: |
David, Dennis, and Darwin Fisher with the Louis Riel Diary, July 1974.jpg |
Louis Riel Diary Photocopy and Auction Information, 1971