William Armstrong (Canadian artist)

His watercolours of local events and scenes were reproduced as monochrome wood engravings so they could be included in these weekly periodicals.

[5] In 1870, Armstrong accompanied the Wolseley Expedition to the Red River Colony, recording the incredible effort required to move the military force through the Canadian wilderness.

He exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists[7] and was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts until 1887, when he resigned.

He painted the watercolour The Arrival of the Prince of Wales at Toronto (1860) which hangs in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

His watercolour painting, Thunder Cape, Lake Superior (1867), hangs in the National Archives of Canada.

a black and white image of a wooden steamboat lying low in the water near a shore with buildings. The smokestack of the steam engine lies flat in a mass of broken planks in the center of the boat while men clamber about the wreckage. Three men in a rowboat observe the scene.
Explosion of the steamboat Inkermann at Browne's Wharf on the Toronto waterfront, on 29 May 1857 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; engraving of a William Armstrong image, published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of New York
a watercolour painting of a small steamboat towing two barges piled high with equipment and three large canoes filled with men. Other barges and canoes are visible near the shore behind. A single building is visible near the left-hand side of the frame. The land is densely forested. There are small groups of men and canoes busy on shore and further along the river. Gulls wheel overhead against a sky where white clouds drift by.
The Red River Expedition , Purgatory Landing (1870) watercolour