This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the work of William Armstrong (1822–1914), an English-born artist who documented the settlement and development of Ontario’s Great Lakes region during the mid‑19th century. Through Armstrong’s watercolours and sketches, readers glimpse early railways, steamboats, Indigenous encampments, pioneer towns, and landscapes that shaped Canada’s formative years.
Henry Cummings Campbell provides historical commentary that situates Armstrong’s art within the broader story of transportation, commerce, and cultural exchange along the Great Lakes. The book is both an art monograph and a regional history, preserving Armstrong’s legacy as one of Canada’s most important visual chroniclers of the period.