BOOK LAUNCH & RECEPTION | Ian MacLaren at the Bibliographical Society of Canada

McGill Library Rare & Special Collections, 3459 rue McTavish - 4th floor, Colgate Room, Montreal, QC
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Join Ian MacLaren for the launch of his book, Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America, at the Bibliographical Society of Canada 2024 Annual Conference.

Admission is free.
Refreshments will be served.

Rare Books Room in the McLennan Library

I.S. MacLaren is professor emeritus of history and English at the University of Alberta.

about the book

An all-encompassing exploration of the nineteenth-century painter’s documentary record and controversial place in Indigenous studies in North America.

“Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America brings the complex versions of Kane’s key texts together with his art, placing Kane’s work in detailed historical and literary context and providing critical interpretation of his texts. This work is an extraordinary achievement, a significant and lasting resource for scholarship.” Laura Peers, Trent University

“More than five decades after Russell Harper highlighted the need for an annotated edition of Wanderings of an Artist, I.S. MacLaren has delivered on this highly desirable outcome. MacLaren’s encyclopedic work will be prized by generations of scholars with a continuing interest in geography, ethnography, literature, and history, as well as connoisseurs and collectors of frontier art from across the continent.” David L. Nicandri, author of Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes