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Description: BLACK WOOD FRAME. THE PRINT IS OF A UNION JACK - RED, WHITE, AND BLUE - ON AN OFF-WHITE BACKGROUND. FLAG IS ATTACHED TO A BLUE FLAGPOLE. BENEATH THE FLAG IN BLUE IS "SHALL WE NOT THRO' GOOD AND ILL CLEAVE TO ONE ANOTHER STILL? BRITAIN'S MYRIAD VOICES CALL, "SONS, BE WEDDED EACH AND ALL, INTO ONE IMPERIAL WHOLE, ONE WITH BRITAIN, HEART AND SOUL! ONE LIFE, ONE FLAG, ONE FLEET, ONE THRONE!" BRITONS, HOLD YOUR OWN! TENNYSON". ON THE FRAME THERE IS A GREEN PLASTIC TAG EMBOSSED WITH "1987.562". WRITTEN ON THE BACK IN BLACK FELT MARKER IS "416". THERE IS ALSO A WIRE ATTACHED TO TWO HOOKS, IN BACK OF FRAME, FOR HANGING. TWO CURTAIN HOOKS ARE HANGING FROM WIRE.

History: SEE P19990035001-GA FOR DONOR HISTORY. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. WHILE SHE WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS PRINT (PRESUMABLY AN INDIVIDUAL WITH TIES TO THE PIONEER PEMMICAN CLUB), SHE DID LEARN THE ORIGINS OF THE VERSES REPRODUCED ALONGSIDE THE IMAGE OF THE UNION JACK FLAG. THE LINES ARE EXCERPTED FROM A POEM WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON FOR THE OPENING OF THE 1886 COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION, HELD IN LONDON. THE EXHIBITION FOLLOWED THE 'WORLD'S FAIR' FORMAT, WHICH WAS HIGHLY POPULAR AT THE TIME, AND FEATURED DISPLAYS FROM NATIONS COLONIZED UNDER THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE PRINCE OF WALES COMMISSIONED TENNYSON TO WRITE THE WELCOMING POEM TO BE READ AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE EXHIBITION BY QUEEN VICTORIA. THE POEM PRAISES THE STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND INVOKES THE IMAGE OF THE BRITISH FLAG. NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRINTER, BERTRAND GALLOWAY IN VANCOUVER, OR A DEFINITIVE DATE OF THE PRINT WAS FOUND. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPY OF RELEVANT EXCERPTS FROM 'THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON' (1961).