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Alexander Young Jackson
oil on canvas (25.25 x 32.25 in) circa 1959
signed lower left; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
The following is inscribed on a label on the reverse next to attached maps:
"From a sketch made in August 1959 during a trip to Port Radium with Dr. M.H. Haycock of the Mines and Technical Surveys Dept. Port Radium is located at the site of Labine's Radium discovery and the original Eldorado Mine of Eldorado Mining & Refining Ltd. The general area is shown on the maps. Dr. Jackson made his sketch from a location on the southern point of Gossan Island MR 5824 looking out in Echo Bay across the mouth of the southwestern arm.
The painting was presented to the AHQ Officers Mess on 27 May 1960 by the officers of Corps of RCEME. The presentation was made by Colonel R.A. Campbell OBE CD, Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to Major General J.D.B. Smith CBE DSO CD, who received it on behalf of the AHQ Officers Mess. Dr. A.Y. Jackson was also present for the presentation."
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