Our Own Country Canada - Being an Account of National Aspirations of the Principle Landscape Artists in Montreal and Toronto: 1860 - 1890

During these robust and stirring years of Canda's westward expansion, when the great railways were flung like shining ribbons from sea to sea, it was Canadian painters and photographers who chartered the boundaries of this brave new world. In their response to the landscape they were affected by, and in their work affecting, the surging drive of nationalism that was so much the spirit of the times.