La coupe de la glace, vers 1830, aquarelle de James Pattison Cockburn, circa 1830

Quebec: cutting the ice, circa 1830, watercolor by james pattison cockburn, library and archives canada. This winter scene on the st. Charles river near the dorchester bridge features ice cutters using saws, axes and metal rods to extract square-shaped blocks of ice from the river. Date: circa 1830.