Paul Kane was born in Ireland and visited Toronto as a child. He studied painting at Upper Canada College and after working in Michigan and Alabama; he went to Europe from 1841-1845. Kane returned to Canada in 1845 and made an extended journey into the Hudson’s Bay Company territories of Western Canada. He travelled by snowshoe, horseback, and canoe to depict the Native Americans of the region in his paintings. In the late 1840’s, Kane returned to Eastern Canada. Much of Kane’s paintings, from his journey of the H.B.C. territories, are in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and in the Parliament buildings, Ottawa.