?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
KENNETH SHOESMITH (1890-1939)
CANADIAN PACIFIC / BEAUTIFUL LAKE LOUISE. 1930.
40x24 inches, 101½x61 cm. S.C. Allen & Co., London. Condition A: minor creases in margins and image.
Two women are enjoying the view of Lake Louise and the distant, glacier covered Mount Victoria from a large picture window. Lake Louise came to be known in 1882 when Tom Wilson, an explorer and route finder for the Canadian Pacific Railway, was led there by a member of a local Indian tribe. The area, like many of the towns in the Rockies, owes its original growth and prosperity to tourists brought by the Canadian Pacific. In 1890, the railway built the Chalet Lake Louise, a small hotel near the lake, which was directly connected to the main line station via an abandoned tram line. The hotel (quite possibly the one pictured here) exists today as The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.
