Эдвин Таппан Эдней: Американдық суретші, жазушы және фотограф өмірі мен шығармашылығы

American journalist

Edwin Tappan Adney (July 13, 1868 – October 10, 1950), commonly known as Tappan Adney, was an American Canadian artist, writer, and photographer.

Edwin Tappan Adney was born in Athens, Ohio, the eldest child of William Harvey Glenn Adney (1834–1885) from Vinton, Ohio, a professor at Ohio University, and Ruth Clementine Shaw Adney. When Tappan was five, the family moved to Washington, Pennsylvania where his father taught at Washington and Jefferson College. In 1879, his father retired from that position for health reasons and bought a tobacco farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina named Gum Spring Plantation. Tappan was exceptionally bright and entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the age of thirteen, where he remained for two years. his mother took him and his younger sister Mary Ruth to New York City to further their education. To earn a living, she ran a boarding house, where Tappan got to know his future wife Minnie Bell Sharp of Woodstock, New Brunswick, a piano and singing student, who was one of his mother's tenants. [[File:Black throated Blue Warbler by Tappan Adney. jpg|thumb|Illustration from Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America 1897 His interest in birds continued when he immigrated to Canada and a visitor remarked on his relationship with the birds around his bungalow in Upper Woodstock. He would whistle bird calls and the birds would flutter around him and sometimes land on his head.

In 1946 Peter Lewis Paul, friend of Tappan Adney and member of the Wolastoqiyik First Nation, was convicted of the theft of ash saplings. Tappan Adney had previously advocated MP John MacNicol, who was resolved to push a re examination of the Indian Act, that such activity by a First Nation member was a right guaranteed by treaty. This was the beginning of a long legal debate that was only resolved in 1999 when the Supreme Court of Canada accepted that the Maritime Aboriginals had ancient treaty rights that predated the formation of Canada. Tappan Adney's close association with Peter Paul resulted in a linguistic study of the Maliseet language.

The lobby of the Hudson's Bay Company store on the corner of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard in Winnipeg, Manitoba c. 1925 was decorated with two immense murals, 52′ long by 10′ wide, depicting scenes of the Company's early history by Edward Tappan Adney and Adam Sheriff Scott. Although the mural entitled Nonsuch at Fort Charles was removed in 1948 to allow the refurbishment of an escalator, The Pioneer at Fort Garry (1861) remained on display until 2014. Both murals have been donated to the Manitoba Museum. Fort Garry and Fort Charles were two important trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company. The Nonsuch was the first trading vessel that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668–1669 and The Pioneer was the first steamboat on the Red River. His photos of rural Ontario c. 1930 are available online via the McCord Museum. He then moved to Montreal, Quebec 1920–33 where he created heraldic art, worked for the Museum of McGill University as a consultant on aboriginal lore, and consulted to McCord Museum on canoes. He is buried in the Upper Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock, New Brunswick with his wife.