Antoine Gingras home, Walhalla, N.D.

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: State Historical Society of North Dakota; 1968
• Subjects: Fur trade; Historic sites; Pioneer Era; Abandoned buildings; Houses; Wooden buildings; Barrels; Ladders; Trees; Gingras; Antoine; 1821-1877; Walhalla (N.D.); Holme; Metis
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/uw-ndshs/id/1211

View of the Gingras home. A long wooden structure with a chimney at the near end. A ladder is propped up into the loft on the end of the building. Trees are to the left and behind the house. A barrel sits near a door at center. The building is listing to the right and forward in this view. Photographic prints; "Jan 68"--Printed on edge of photograph. "6-3-68 Old Holme of Hon. Antoine B. Gingras (c1821-77). St. Joseph, D.T., a few miles E. of Walhalla, N.D. - A. E. Dease"--Handwritten on back of photograph. Photographer unknown. Title created by staff. Antoine Gingras settled here in the 1840s. Gingras was a prominent fur trader, a representative in the Minnesota Territorial legislature, and participated in the 1869 Metis rebellion against Canadian rule, led by Louis Riel. Consult http://history.nd.gov/historicsites/gringras/index.html