his office, a work room for the Ambassador, also possesses an important artistic dimension because its four walls are covered in a magnificent engraving by Charles Pinson, burin-engraved and then enhanced in Indian Ink, symbolising the epic of the New France from 1534-1760, through episodes such as the arrival of Jacques Cartier to Canada, the beginnings of colonisation of the New France, and the fall of the colony into British hands in
1759-1760.

  
 

verall view of the Ambassador’s Office
The walls of the Ambassador’s office are covered in an inked engraving illustrating the Franco-Canadian epic, from the discovery of the New France to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which brought about, in 1760, the end of the French presence in Canada.

  
Sens inverse de la visite

Element of the engraving
covering a part of the
Northern wall in the
Ambassador’s Office

Element of the engraving
covering a part of the
Northern wall in the
Ambassador’s Office

Element of the engraving
covering the Western wall
of the Ambassador’s Office

Element of the engraving
covering the Eastern wall
of the Ambassador’s Office
 
 
 
   
 
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