ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the materialities of Anna Brownell Jameson’s 1838 voyage to Upper Lake Huron, Canada. The physical vessels (steamer, carriage, sleigh, canoe), movements and bodily experiences of her travel are considered in relation to her socio-economic position and colonial processes. Such a focus provides a vehicle to understand that Jameson’s gendered and classed position—and the act of writing and drawing—was negotiated via and within various types of vessels and within a particular colonial context. Similarly, these vessels are understood as active ‘agents’ within the colonial process, helping to produce social relations and displacements, and the possibility for Jameson to travel, write, interact with and represent place.
