Art exhibition aims to offer full picture of Fort Calgary

Artist Viviana Pacheco with one of her paintings.Fort Calgary, a base for the North-West Mounted Police, was built in 1875 to quell the flow of the illicit whiskey trade along the Bow River.

According to Fort Calgary’s official website, Indigenous signatories were against surrendering their land and instead sought to share it with Canada. But once signed, the NWMP began surveilling Indigenous people and displaced them from where they had lived for generations.Article content Thompson cautioned that including different narratives doesn’t mean neglecting the history of NWMP, which helped “evolve our city into a certain way.” But such occasions present an opportunity also to highlight the legacy of the Blackfoot community, whose members have gathered in the area for thousands of years.

Soon, the group began accepting applications from interested candidates and selected 150 artists, from youth to established painters.

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