A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal, QC, and Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP) is a scholarly publisher that creates and engages with fresh interpretations of the world. With over 4,000 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, MQUP aims to advance scholarship, promote public debate, and contribute to cultural understanding.
MQUP engaged Bow Bridge in 2024 to promote the four-volume publication Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life, and Times by I.S. MacLaren, the first comprehensive survey of Canadian artist Paul Kane’s (1810–1871) life and work in more than 50 years. Kane’s field sketches made between 1845 and 1848 constitute the first visual record of Indigenous life from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean by a non-Indigenous artist.
Top Photograph: Cover of four-volume publication Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life and Times by I.S. MacLaren. Photo courtesy of McGill-Queen’s University Press. Inset Photograph: Paul Kane, Boat Encampment, Columbia River, BC,1847, watercolour over graphite on paper, 13.8 × 23.6 cm. Stark Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of McGill-Queen’s University Press.