The original owner of this work, George Wilson, was a Scottish Canadian artist and collector who emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg in the late nineteenth century. His interest in art, and particularly painting, fueled his interest in the growing Canadian art scene at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Wilson began to keep company with the social circles that would eventually lead to his participation in the establishment of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1913. He developed a special interest in the evolving genre of landscape painting in his new country, and he continued to develop his skills as an amateur while working with artists and arts administrators in the thriving cultural scene in Winnipeg. During this work he was introduced to many of the artists who would eventually be known as the Group of Seven, with whom he would remain socially associated. In particular, he painted with the only member of the Group based in Western Canada, Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald, and collected his work. Both men were highly interested in the Manitoba landscape and focused their artwork on the scenery that surrounded them.

This work likely depicts the original Provencher Bridge over the Red River that connected Winnipeg and St. Boniface.