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John Elliott Woolford’s wash drawing of 1817 is the best early pictorial record of Uniacke Estate. It depicts the view looking out over Lake Martha toward the house, the boat house on the shore and the unique barn in the background.
Woolford, a well-known London landscape artist, was also a topographical draughtsman and architect. In the early 1800s, he traveled to Nova Scotia extensively with Lord Dalhousie as an official draughtsman. Using line-and-wash drawings, Woolford recorded the towns and villages, landscapes, forests, rivers, lakes and historic sites he encountered.
For a complete biography of John Elliott Woolford, visit the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online. To view more of his drawings of early Nova Scotian landscapes, visit Images Nova Scotia and enter “John Elliott Woolford” in the search box.