Paul Kane travelled from Thunder Bay to Fort Vancouver in 1845, where he painted the Indigenous communities along his travels. He sketched and painted dozens of works depicting scenes from the Hudson's Bay Company territory. He has been called the founding father of Canadian art

Dr. Ian MacLaren wrote Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America, comprised of four volumes, as a project 30 years in the making. A painstaking, panoramic exploration, it studies the artist's oeuvre in terms of his contemporaries, his technique, and the complicated history of the provenance of the works.