Title

Swine Feeding On Acorn Mast

Extent

26.27 x 36.68 cm

Is Part Of

Watercolour Collection

Description

View is circa 1790s ;

en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; Research by George Seibel ; In 1765, Robert Rogers described this area "as being thinly timbered with lofty oaks, which at first view, one would be apt to think were artificially transposed." The Loyalist farmers' hogs throve so well on the acorn mast covering the floor of the oak forest that farmers often "killed them out of the woods, well fatted on nuts" excerpted from Mark of Honour by Hazel C Matthews, page 129 ;

Type

Still Image

Medium

Watercolour

Subject

Animals

Pioneers - Ontario - Niagara Falls

Agriculture

Location

Canada

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102753

locator

WC 60

Rights

©Niagara Falls Public Library

Publisher

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Date Created

2005-02-16

Date Modified

2005-05-03