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82-791: Under the Treaty of 1818 , the Great Britain and the United States of America both claimed rights to the Oregon Country . The contentious Oregon dispute for ownership of the land was ended by the Oregon Treaty in 1846. The boundary between British North America and the United States was extended to the Pacific Ocean on the 49th Parallel , with all of Vancouver Island considered British. During

164-403: A cradle board with a later field portrait of a Cowlitz woman living in a different region. Another example of how Kane elaborated his sketches can be seen in his painting Indian encampment on Lake Huron , which is based on a sketch taken in summer 1845 during his first trip to Sault Ste. Marie. The painting has a distinct romantic flair accentuated by the lighting and the dramatic clouds, while

246-858: A " Grand Tour " study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. The first trip took him from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and back. Having secured the support of the Hudson's Bay Company , he set out on a second, much longer voyage from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington ) and Fort Victoria (present day Victoria, British Columbia ). On both trips Kane sketched and painted First Nations and Métis peoples. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. The oil paintings he completed in his studio are considered

328-454: A Victorian travel account, and that it was thus difficult at best to ascribe any perceived racism to the artist himself. As one of the first Canadian painters who could earn a living from his artwork alone, Kane prepared the ground for many later artists. His travels inspired others to similar journeys, and a very direct artistic influence is evident in the case of F. A. Verner , whose mentor Kane became in his later years. According to Harper,

410-480: A bull. Already in 1877, Nicholas Flood Davin commented on this discrepancy, stating that "the Indian horses are Greek horses, the hills have much of the colour and form of those of [...] the early European landscape painters, ..." And Lawrence Johnstone Burpee added in his introduction to the 1925 reprint of Kane's travel book that the sketches were "truer interpretations of the wild western life" and had "in some respects

492-557: A factor in the establishment and spreading of the perception of the North American indigenous people as noble savages , contrary to what the artist had intended. The more truthful field sketches were "rediscovered" and valued by a wider audience only in the twentieth century. In 1937 Kane was declared a National Historic Person, and a plaque to commemorate him was dedicated in Rocky Mountain House in 1952. On August 11, 1971,

574-560: A few days' rest, they continued to Fort Edmonton, where they spent the winter. Kane passed the time at the fort with buffalo hunting, and also sketched among the Cree living in the vicinity. In January he undertook an excursion to Fort Pitt , some 200 miles (320 km) down the Saskatchewan River , and then returned to Edmonton. In April he visited Rocky Mountain House , where he wanted to meet

656-415: A higher value as art". Twentieth century and later art theory is less judging than Burpee but agrees insofar as Kane's field sketches are generally considered more accurate and authentic. "Kane was the recorder in the field and the artist in the studio", write Davis and Thacker. Kane is generally considered a classic and one of the most important Canadian painters. The eleven surviving paintings done for

738-568: A manuscript derived from his travel notes and sent to a publishing house in London for publication. When he did not hear back from them, he travelled to London and, with the support of Simpson, got the book published the next year. It was titled The Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again and

820-518: A part of the Canadian heritage, although he often embellished them considerably, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches in favour of more dramatic scenes. Kane's work followed the tenets of salvage ethnography . Kane was born in Mallow, County Cork in Ireland, the fifth child of the eight children of Michael Kane and Frances Loach. His father, a soldier from Preston, Lancashire , England, served in

902-568: A portrait of Tomahas (Kane gives the name as "To-ma-kus"), the man who would later be named as Whitman's murderer. According to Kane's travel report, the relations between the Cayuse and the settlers at the mission were already strained by the time of his visit in July. Kane continued with one guide by horseback through the Grande Coulée to Fort Colvile , where he stayed for six weeks, sketching and painting

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984-538: A station on Kettle Falls would be "a more desirable situation in regard to Farming, fish, provisions generally as also in respect to Trade..." than the Spokane House. During the 1820s, yearly purchases of furs rarely exceeded 20 blankets being sold. Increased amounts of animal hides were gathered by Fort Colvile started with the "Flat Head brigade," which joined the Bitterroot Salish on their annual migrations past

1066-428: A valuable resource for ethnologists, but the oil paintings, while still truthful in the individual details of Native American lifestyle, are often unfaithful to geographic, historic, or ethnographic settings in their overall compositions. One well-known example of this process is Kane's painting Flathead woman and child , in which he combined a sketch of a Chinookan baby having its head flattened by being strapped to

1148-623: Is buried at the St. James Cemetery in Toronto. The bulk of Kane's oeuvre is the more than 700 sketches he made during his two voyages to the west and the more than one hundred oil canvases he later elaborated from them in his studio in Toronto. Of his early portraits done at York or Cobourg before his travels, Harper writes, "[they] are primitive in approach but have a direct appeal and a warm colouring that make them attractive". The rest are an unknown number of paintings from his time as an itinerant portraitist in

1230-605: Is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto was the only known image of an active Cascade volcano until the eruption of Lassen Peak in California in 1914. Although the scene was somewhat fictionalized, it did correctly show the active vent on the side of the volcano rather that the summit. He stayed for two months in that area, traveling and sketching among the Native Americans on Vancouver Island and around

1312-592: The 49th parallel as the boundary between the United States and British North America to the Pacific Ocean. Paul Kane Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter whose paintings and especially field sketches were known as one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life. A largely self-educated artist, Paul Kane grew up in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto ) and trained himself by copying European masters on

1394-462: The Blackfoot . When they did not turn up, he returned to Edmonton. On May 25, 1848, Kane left Fort Edmonton, travelling with a large party of 23 boats and 130 people bound for York Factory , led by John Edward Harriott . On June 1 they met with a large war party of some 1,500 warriors of Blackfoot and other tribes who were planning a raid against the Cree and Assiniboine . On that occasion Kane met

1476-713: The Brenner Pass in Switzerland. He went on to Paris, then London. In London he may have encountered George Catlin , an American salvage painter who had made his career painting Native Americans on the prairies and who now was on a promotion tour for his book, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians. Catlin lectured at Egyptian Hall at Piccadilly , where he also exhibited some of his paintings. In his book Catlin argued that

1558-682: The Continental Divide , including all of the Red River Colony south of that latitude, while the United States ceded the northernmost edge of the Missouri Territory north of the 49th parallel. The treaty name is variously cited as "Convention respecting fisheries, boundary, and the restoration of slaves" , "Convention of Commerce (Fisheries, Boundary and the Restoration of Slaves)" , and "Convention of Commerce between His Majesty and

1640-672: The Juan de Fuca Strait and the Strait of Georgia . He returned to Fort Vancouver in mid-June, from where he departed to return east on July 1, 1847. By mid-July Kane had reached Fort Walla Walla where he made a minor detour to visit the Whitman Mission that a few months later would be the site of the Whitman massacre . He went with Marcus Whitman to visit the Cayuse living in the area and happened to draw

1722-613: The Kaministiquia River on May 24. By June 4 Kane reached Fort Frances , where a pass from Simpson for travelling further was awaiting him. His next stop was the Red River Colony (near modern-day Winnipeg ). There, he embarked on a three-week excursion by horse, joining a large Métis hunting band that went buffalo hunting in Sioux lands in Dakota Territory in the United States. On June 26 Kane witnessed and participated in one of

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1804-517: The Rocky Mountains . A skirmish in 1829 between the Bitterroot Salish and inhabitants of Columbia Lake caused fears among HBC employees about the defenseless state of Fort Colvile Additional employees were sent to erect a palisade and establish the mill during the Winter. The staff number for Fort Colvile fluctuated with the seasons. Operations commencing in the Spring required upwards of 30 employees during

1886-678: The Rush–Bagot Treaty of 1817, marked the beginning of improved relations between the British Empire and its former colonies, and paved the way for more positive relations between the US and Canada although repelling a US invasion was a defense priority in Canada until 1928. Despite the relatively friendly nature of the agreement, it resulted in a fierce struggle for control of the Oregon Country for

1968-497: The Upper Canada College around 1830. In July 1834, he displayed some of his paintings in the first (and only) exhibition of The Society of Artists and Amateurs in Toronto, gaining a favourable review by a local newspaper, The Patriot . Kane began a career as a sign and furniture painter at York until he moved to Cobourg, Ontario , in 1834. He may have taken up a job in the furniture factory of Freeman Schermerhorn Clench,

2050-524: The Whitman Massacre , the missionaries fled their station for the protection of the HBC trading post. Agricultural operations at Fort Colvile were prominent, eventually supplying other interior posts with wheat, peas, flint corn , and potatoes. The prairie that the station was on was deemed an "island of fertility" by visiting artist Paul Kane . At its foundation, 24 bushels of potatoes were sown, but over half

2132-489: The 1830s. Usually only five men were stationed there throughout Winter, and if the number was above that, McLoughlin would reassign the extra staff. Spokane Garry was considered a prospective employee at the Fort until McLoughlin rejected the proposition. Alex McLeod, born at the fort in 1854 recalled that "The trading post proper was a square enclosure. The store and warehouses were on the north side, and Chief Trader McDonald's house

2214-400: The 1860s and forced him to abandon painting altogether. Frederick Arthur Verner , who had been inspired by Kane and was an artist of "western" scenes, became an acquaintance and friend. Verner did three portraits of the ageing Paul Kane, one of which is today at the Royal Ontario Museum . Kane died unexpectedly one winter morning in 1871 in his home, just having returned from his daily walk. He

2296-495: The Blackfoot chief Big Snake (Omoxesisixany). The canoe brigade stayed as briefly as possible and then continued hastily down the river. On June 18 they arrived at Norway House, where Kane stayed for a month, waiting for the annual meeting of the chief factors of the Hudson's Bay Company and the arrival of the party with which he was bound to travel further. On July 24 he departed with the party of one Major McKenzie; they travelled along

2378-567: The Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy , showing British surveyor John Henry Lefroy , which had been in possession of the Lefroy family in England, garnered a record price at an auction at Sotheby's in Toronto on February 25, 2002, when Canadian billionaire Kenneth Thomson won the bid at C$ 5,062,500 including the buyer's premium (US$ 3,172,567.50 at the time). Thomson subsequently donated

2460-654: The Royal Horse Artillery until his discharge in 1801. The family then settled in Ireland. Sometime between 1819 and 1822, when Kane was around ten, they immigrated to Upper Canada and settled in York (now Toronto ). There, Kane's father operated a shop as a spirits and wine merchant . Not much is known about Kane's youth in York, which at that time was a small settlement of a few thousand people. He went to school at Upper Canada College , and then received some training in painting by an art teacher named Thomas Drury at

2542-544: The United States of America" . The treaty was negotiated for the US by Albert Gallatin , ambassador to France, and Richard Rush , minister to the UK; and for the UK by Frederick John Robinson , Treasurer of the Royal Navy and member of the privy council , and Henry Goulburn , an undersecretary of state. The treaty was signed on October 20, 1818. Ratifications were exchanged on January 30, 1819. The Convention of 1818, along with

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2624-618: The United States, plus a number of copies of classic paintings he did while in Europe. Kane's fame rests in his depictions of Native American life. His field sketches were done in pencil, watercolour, or oil on paper. He also brought back from his trips a collection of various artefacts such as masks, pipe stems, and other handicrafts. Together, these formed the basis for his later studio work. He drew on this pool of impressions for his large oil canvases, in which he typically combined or reinterpreted them to create new compositions. The field sketches are

2706-418: The artist. This view remains rather singular among art historians. Kane's travel diary, which formed the basis for the 1859 book, does not contain any pejorative judgements. MacLaren reported that Kane's travel notes were written in a style very different from the published text, such that it must be considered highly likely that the book was heavily edited by others or even ghostwritten to turn Kane's notes into

2788-539: The cultures of Native Americans were disappearing and should be recorded before passing into oblivion. Kane found the argument compelling and decided to similarly document Canadian First Nations. Kane returned in early 1843 to Mobile, Alabama , where he set up a studio and worked as a portrait painter until he had paid back the money borrowed for his voyage to Europe. He returned to Toronto late 1844 or early 1845 and immediately began preparing for his journey west. Kane set out on his own on June 17, 1845, travelling along

2870-733: The daughter of his former employer at Cobourg. David Wilson, a contemporary historian of the University of Toronto , reported that she was also a skilled painter and writer. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Until 1857, Kane fulfilled his commissions: more than 120 oil canvases for Allan, the Parliament, and Simpson. His works were shown at the World's Fair at Paris in 1855 , where they were reviewed very positively, and some of them were sent to Buckingham Palace in 1858 for consideration by Queen Victoria . By that time Kane had also prepared

2952-534: The dusky hue of the Indians". Treaty of 1818 The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves , also known as the London Convention , Anglo-American Convention of 1818 , Convention of 1818 , or simply the Treaty of 1818 , is an international treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom . This treaty resolved standing boundary issues between

3034-414: The early Lucius O'Brien was also influenced by Kane's work. Kane's 1848 exhibition of his sketches, which included 155 watercolour and 85 oil on paper paintings, helped establish the genre in the minds of the public and cleared the way for artists like William Cresswell or Daniel Fowler , who both were able to make a living from their watercolour paintings. Both his 1848 exhibition of the sketches and

3116-625: The eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg to Fort Alexander . From there on Kane followed the same route he had taken two years earlier going west: by the Lake of the Woods , Fort Frances , and Rainy Lake , he travelled by canoe to Fort William and then along the northern shore of Lake Superior until he reached Sault Ste. Marie on October 1, 1848. From there he returned by steamboat to Toronto, where he landed on October 13. He noted in his book on this last leg of his journey: "the greatest hardship that I had to endure [now]

3198-401: The expected sale price of C$ 2–2.5 million. Kane's travel report, published originally in London in 1859, was a great success already in its time and has been reprinted several times in the twentieth century. In 1986 Dawkins criticized Kane's work based mainly on this travel account, but also on the "European" nature of his oil paintings, as showing the imperialistic or even racist tendencies of

3280-595: The falls and raised them up three times a day, always filled with fish." Fort Colvile was the center for construction of Columbia boats , the wooden-planked canoe-like watercraft used to convey freight and passengers on the Columbia River in the fur trade era. After the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846 , Fort Colvile was south of the 49th parallel and therefore within American claimed land. The Hudson's Bay Company founded Fort Shepherd, British Columbia , just north of

3362-620: The father of Harriet Clench who Kane married in 1853. While in Cobourg, Kane painted several portraits of the local personalities, including the sheriff and his employer's wife. In 1836 Kane moved to Detroit , Michigan , where the American artist James Bowman was living. The two had met earlier at York. Bowman had persuaded Kane that studying art in Europe was a necessity for an aspiring painter, and they had planned to travel to Europe together, along with Samuel Bell Waugh. But Kane had to postpone

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3444-423: The first time caught a glimpse of the peoples and their lifestyles in this vast and barely known territory. Kane had set out with a sincere desire to accurately portray his experiences—the landscape, the people, their tools. Yet it was primarily his embellished studio work that gained public appeal and made him famous. His idealized oil paintings and the similarly transformed travel notes that became his book were both

3526-532: The following two decades. The British-chartered Hudson's Bay Company, having previously established a trading network centered on Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River, with other forts in what is now eastern Washington and Idaho as well as on the Oregon Coast and in Puget Sound, undertook a harsh campaign to restrict encroachment by US fur traders to the area. By the 1830s, the policy of discouraging settlement

3608-408: The fort was sold in 1865. Early settlers surrounding Colvile were often French-Canadians formerly in the employ of the HBC. At social occasions held at their former station, "would drink whisky [sic] and brandy and sing old songs or tell tales of hunting experiences." Such outings were found to be composed of "the lighthearted trapper with his gaudy moccasins and leggings, through all shades of colour to

3690-472: The generally Eurocentric expectations of the time. Kane's embellishment is evident in his painting Assiniboine hunting buffalo , one of the twelve done for the parliament. The painting has been criticized for its horses, which look more like Arabian horses than anything relevant to the Canadian West. The composition has even been found to be based on an 1816 engraving from Italy showing two Romans hunting

3772-455: The gold rushes of the 1850s and 1860s, Fort Colvile in 1860 especially became an important centre for mining activity and supplies. Abandoned in June 1871, some buildings stood until they burned July 6, 1910. The construction of Grand Coulee Dam resulted in the site being flooded in 1940, as was Kettle Falls. When Lake Roosevelt was drawn down for construction of Grand Coulee Dam's Powerhouse #3 in

3854-401: The horses and taking them back over Athabasca Pass. They managed to bring all 56 horses safely and without loss to Jasper's House, despite the heavy snow and intense cold. As the canoes that should have been awaiting them had already left, they were forced to set out on snowshoes and with a dog sled to Fort Assiniboine, where they arrived after much hardship and without food two weeks later. After

3936-483: The initial sowing, in 1838, it was over 7,000 bushels. Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition found that farming was the primary focus of the establishment "for the whole of the northern posts depend upon Colville for supplies of provisions." Salmon was easily procured when the seasonal runs commenced. One pioneer recalled that Kettle Falls men would "put large wicker baskets below

4018-494: The intent to join a canoe brigade from Lachine at Sault Ste. Marie. After an overnight stop, he missed the boat, which had left in the morning earlier than advertised, and he had to race after it by canoe. Arriving at the Sault, he learned that the canoe brigade had already left, so he sailed aboard a freight schooner to Fort William on Thunder Bay . He finally caught up with the canoes about 35 miles (56 km) beyond Fort William on

4100-401: The last great buffalo hunts, which within a few decades, aided by railroad travel, decimated the animals to near-extinction. Upon his return he continued by canoe and sailing boats by way of Norway House , Grand Rapids , and The Pas up the Saskatchewan River to Fort Carlton . For variety, he continued from there on horseback to Fort Edmonton , witnessing a Cree buffalo pound hunt along

4182-530: The late 1960s and early 1970, Fort Colvile and Kettle Falls were revealed. After archaeological work was performed by Washington State University and the University of Idaho , the Fort Colvile site was again inundated by Lake Roosevelt. In 1974, Fort Colvile was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historic significance. It replaced Spokane House as a regional trading center, due to

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4264-459: The later 1852 show of some of his oil paintings were great success and lauded by several newspapers. Kane was the most prominent painter in Upper Canada in his time. He frequently entered his paintings at art exhibitions and won numerous prizes for his works. He dominated the scene throughout the 1850s, even to the point where an art jury all but presented their excuses when they did not award him

4346-613: The latter being deemed to be too far from the Columbia River. Governor George Simpson considered the disuse of Spokane House to likely offend Spokane elders, and ordered for a dispersement of gifts among them. The removal of the company property at Spokane House was moved to Fort Colvile in March 1826. Simpson also gave instructions to Chief Factor John McLoughlin for "every possible exertion be used to be lay up an abundant stock of Fish and other provisions" due to limited capacity to send freight from Fort Vancouver. Additionally Simpson stated that

4428-573: The lower employes [ sic ] of the company. They are of rude construction, and much decayed. On the right of the square, in the rear, at a distance of a few hundred yards, are three more buildings, used for storing produce. In 1859 the Palliser Expedition reunited in Fort Colvile and proceeded down the Columbia River, after having explored much of what is now western Canada, from the Great Lakes to Lake Okanagan . The mill maintained at

4510-420: The major fur trade routes. Kane returned to Toronto for the winter, elaborating his field sketches to oil canvases, and in spring of the next year, he went to the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company at Lachine and asked company governor George Simpson for support for his travel plans. Simpson was impressed by Kane's artistic ability, and the letters of support of Ballenden and John Henry Lefroy , but at

4592-455: The natives who had set up a fishing camp below Kettle Falls at this time of the salmon run . On September 22, 1847, Kane assumed command of a canoe brigade up the Columbia River and arrived on October 10 at Boat Encampment . The party had to wait for three weeks until a badly delayed horse trek from Jasper arrived. Then they switched, the horse team taking over the canoes and going down the Columbia River, and Kane's group loading their cargo on

4674-446: The new boundary, as a surrogate location secure on British territory. They continued some operations at Fort Colvile for a few years longer. While traveling through in 1853, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens described Fort Colvile as: The buildings consist of a dwelling house, three or four store-houses, and some smaller buildings, used as blacksmith shops, etc., all of one story and constructed of squared logs. The whole

4756-460: The northern shores of the Lake Huron , moving through Saugeen land. After weeks of sketching, he reached Sault Ste. Marie between Lake Superior and Lake Huron in summer 1845. He had intended to travel further west, but John Ballenden , the local Chief Trader for the Hudson's Bay Company stationed at Sault Ste. Marie, told him of the many difficulties and perils of travelling alone through

4838-612: The operations at Fort Vancouver were to be wound down and relocated following the conclusion of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which fixed the continental border between Canada and the United States west of the Rocky Mountains at the 49th parallel north . Kane went up the Cowlitz River and stayed for a week among the tribes living there in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens before continuing on horseback to Nisqually (today Tacoma ) and then by canoe again to Fort Victoria. His painting of Mount St. Helens in eruption at night in 1847 which

4920-508: The painting as part of his Thomson Collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario . The Glenbow Museum in Calgary has a copy of this painting that is thought to have been done by Kane's wife Harriet Clench. Another auction at Sotheby's on November 22, 2004, for Kane's oil painting Encampment, Winnipeg River (after the field sketch shown above ) failed when bidding stopped at C$ 1.7 million, less than

5002-618: The parliament—one painting was lost in the fire on Parliament Hill in 1916—were transferred in 1955 to the National Gallery of Canada . The large Allan collection was bought by Edmund Boyd Osler in 1903 and donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 1912. A collection of 229 sketches was sold by Kane's grandson Paul Kane III for about US$ 100,000 to the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas , in 1957. A rare painting of his, Scene in

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5084-422: The pre-existing boundaries based on watersheds. The treaty marked both the United Kingdom's last permanent major loss of territory in what is now the Continental United States and the United States' first permanent significant cession of North American territory to a foreign power, the second being the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842. The British ceded all of Rupert's Land south of the 49th parallel and east of

5166-431: The prize in the category for historical paintings at the annual exhibition of the Upper Canada Agricultural Society in 1852. (Kane won that prize consecutively in all years until 1859, though.) Kane was one of the first, if not the first, tourist to travel across the Canadian west and the Pacific north-west. Through his sketches and paintings, and later also his book, the public at large in Upper and Lower Canada for

5248-479: The same time worried that Kane might not have the stamina needed to travel with the fur brigades of the company. He granted Kane passage on company canoes only as far as Lake Winnipeg , with the promise of full passage if the artist did well until then. Kane would travel HBC routes with the company's explicit aid and blessing for the next two years, and much of his sketching was done at their tradeposts. On May 9, 1846, Kane departed by steamboat from Toronto with

5330-414: The scene of the camp life depicted is reminiscent of a European idealized rural peasant scene. Indeed, Kane often created completely fictitious scenes from several sketches for his oil paintings. His oil canvas of Mount St. Helens erupting shows a major and dramatic volcanic eruption, but from his travel diary and the field sketches he made, it is evident that the mountain had only been smoking gently at

5412-409: The time of Kane's visit. (It had, however, erupted three years earlier.) In other paintings he combined river sketches taken at different times and places into one painting, creating an artificial landscape that does not exist in reality. His painting of The Death of Big Snake shows an entirely imaginary scene: the Blackfoot chief Omoxesisixany died only in 1858, more than two years after the painting

5494-554: The trip, as he was short of money to pay for the passage to Europe and Bowman had married shortly before and was not inclined to leave his family. For the next five years, Kane toured the American Midwest , working as an itinerant portrait painter, travelling to New Orleans . In June 1841, Kane left America, sailing from New Orleans aboard a ship bound for Marseilles in France, arriving there about three months later, and immediately made out for Italy. Kane hiked much of this journey, travelling on foot from Rome to Naples , as well as

5576-427: The two nations. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country , known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company , and including the southern portion of its sister district New Caledonia . The two nations agreed to a boundary line involving the 49th parallel north , in part because a straight-line boundary would be easier to survey than

5658-416: The vicinity and making several excursions, including a longer one of three weeks through the Willamette Valley . He enjoyed the social life at Fort Vancouver, which at that time was being visited by the British ship Modeste , and became friends with Peter Skene Ogden . On March 25, 1847, Kane set out by canoe to Fort Victoria, which had been founded shortly before to become the new company headquarters, as

5740-438: The way. On October 6, 1846, Kane left Edmonton for Fort Assiniboine , where he again embarked with a canoe brigade up the Athabasca River to Jasper's House , arriving on November 3. Here he joined a large horse troop bound west, but the party soon had to send the horses back to Jasper's House and continue on snowshoes , taking only the essentials with them, because Athabasca Pass was already too deeply snowed in that late in

5822-406: The western territories and advised Kane to attempt such a feat only with the support of the company. After the Hudson's Bay Company had taken over its competitor, the North West Company of Montreal , in 1821, the whole territory west of the Great Lakes until the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon Country was operating under their monopoly , with about a hundred isolated outposts of the company along

5904-550: The year of the centenary of Kane's death, Canada Post issued a postage stamp entitled 'Paul Kane, painter', designed by William Rueter based on Kane's painting "Indian Encampment on Lake Huron". The 7¢ stamps have 12.5 perforation and were printed by the British American Bank Note Company. In 1978, the City of Toronto purchased the dilapidated Paul Kane House , which Kane and his heirs had lived in. The building

5986-572: The year. They crossed the pass on November 12 and three days later joined a canoe brigade that had been waiting to take them down the Columbia River . Finally, Kane arrived on December 18, 1846, at Fort Vancouver , the main trading post and headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Oregon Territory . He stayed there over winter, sketching among and studying the Chinookan and other tribes in

6068-593: Was also received favourably. The politician George William Allan took note of the artist and became his most important patron, commissioning one hundred oil paintings for the price of $ 20,000 in 1852. This enabled Kane to live a life as a professional artist. Kane also succeeded in 1851 to convince the Parliament of the Province of Canada to commission twelve paintings for the sum of £ 500, which he delivered in late 1856. In 1853, Kane married Harriet Clench (1823–1892),

6150-558: Was completed. His models were classic European paintings (for instance, his work may evoke the work of Salvatore Rosa) but Kane also had plain economic reasons for composing his oil paintings in the more mannered style of the European art tradition. He wanted and had to sell his paintings to make a living, and he knew his clientele well enough: his patrons were unlikely to decorate their homes with unadorned copies in oil of his field sketches; they demanded something more presentable and closer to

6232-499: Was eaten by rodents. The farm was able to produce enough crops to feed its staff and Fort Nez Perces in 1830. The harvest wasn't large enough to support the brigade of fur trappers headed to the New Caledonia district , requiring shipments from Fort Vancouver. 20 Native and White men labored on the farms in 1838, about two-thirds of the total number of men kept at trade post. The potato harvests had increased greatly in size compared to

6314-657: Was later designated a heritage structure under the Ontario Heritage Act . In 1985, the structure was refurbished and the front yard developed into a small park. Paul Kane High School in St. Albert , Alberta was named in honor of Kane. A park in the Oliver neighbourhood of Edmonton was also named after him. The main sources used for this article are Eaton/Urbanek, the Garvin reprint of Kane's travel journal, and Harper's entry for Kane in

6396-463: Was on the east side. The married employees, like my father, lived outside the enclosed post yard on the south and west sides." The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Missionaries established Tshimakain Mission in 1838. The missionary families of Elkanah Walker and Cushing Eells developed ties with Fort Colvile officers and wives, then the closest white settlement in the area. After

6478-428: Was once surrounded by a stockade, forming a square of about 70 yards on each side. This has been removed, except on the north side, where it encloses a narrow yard containing offices. One bastion remains. About 30 yards in the rear of this square are the cattle yards, hay sheds, etc., enclosing a space of 40 by 60 yards, roughly fenced in, and the sheds covered with bark. On the left of the front are seven huts, occupied by

6560-456: Was originally published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts in London in 1859, illustrated with many lithographs of his own sketches and paintings. Kane had dedicated the book to Allan, which upset Simpson so that he broke off his relations with Kane. The book was an immediate success and had appeared by 1863 in French, Danish, and German editions. Kane's eyesight was failing rapidly in

6642-503: Was the difficulty in trying to sleep in a civilized bed". Kane permanently settled in Toronto. He went West once more when he was hired by a British party in 1849 as a guide and interpreter, but they went only as far as the Red River Colony . An exhibition of 240 of his sketches in November 1848 in Toronto met with great success, and a second exhibition in September 1852 of eight oil canvases

6724-497: Was undercut to some degree by the actions of John McLoughlin , Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, who regularly provided relief and welcome to US immigrants who had arrived at the post over the Oregon Trail . By the mid-1840s, the tide of US immigration, as well as a US political movement to claim the entire territory, led to a renegotiation of the agreement. The Oregon Treaty in 1846 permanently established

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