In 1871, the federal government signed Treaties 1 and 2 with the Indigenous, taking over much of southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan. This was also the year that BC joined Confederation. While Canada lost a great artist, Paul Kane, this year, it gained a new great artist, Emily Carr.

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