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Article content Someone was dragooned into the National Post last week to respond to my comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report on the Indian residential school system. Having assured his tiny number of Twitter followers that my approach was “hopelessly racist,” his rebuttal was piffle. The metal tools from 6000 BC (in the midst of an ice age) that were discovered around Lake Superior, for example, had largely disappeared from North American Indigenous society by the time the Europeans arrived 7,500 years later, and there has never been any evidence that they used smelting, melting or casting in the production of metal objects. I have been a militant racial egalitarian all my conscient life. People and races are equal, but civilizations are not. He asserted that: “Europeans no more brought civilization to the Americas than they discovered it,” and alleges that civilizations of equal levels of development met each other and that � ....
None The Canadian War Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Art Gallery of Ontario are the unique venues that offer access to these six paintings. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Death of General Wolfe (1770) The American artist Benjamin West moved in 1763 to England, where he quickly gained a reputation as portraitist to King George III before painting his most famous and monumental work, The Death of General Wolfe. When it was first exhibited at London’s Royal Academy in 1771, it was initially criticized for being overambitious. However, by the end of the century, opinion had changed. Three full-scale copies were commissioned from West, including one for the king, while smaller prints of the work became one of the best-selling reproductions of the period. This Neoclassical paint ....