“What, art in Canada? Genius in the backwoods! Yes! good, and perhaps incredilous [sic] reader, native art, indigeous [sic; i.e., indigenous?] skill – and that of fair promise and comparative excellence.”So began a somewhat excitable (or at least under-edited) reporter’s “attempt to bring under the public notice” the name of one “PAUL KANE,” who, at the time of the article, May ...