Who is Paul Kane?
He was one of Canada's most traveled painters. He traveled by horseback, canoe, and on foot to paint buffalo herds, fur traders, and Indigenous encampments. Kane made 68 known sketches of this area from 1845-1848
Canada was still very underdeveloped at the time, and he helped paint a portrait of what the country looked like. And Paul Kane immersed himself in the land and the people that inhabited it. He was able to capture what he saw and learned through graphite, watercolors, and oil on paper. He produced over seven hundred pictures accompanying journal descriptions of the lives of indigenous people.
We have him to thank for the images of the past. And for his attempts to share awareness of his concerns for the future development and overpower of the Europeans to this vast wilderness and the first people who lived here
