First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization
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by Jean-Luc Pilon and Nicholette Prince
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2013
175 pp., illus., $49.95 paperback
This book owes its existence to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China. In the year leading up to the event, the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History) hosted a one-of-a-kind exhibit of Chinese artifacts, with the promise to return the favour by creating a uniquely Canadian exhibit for a Chinese audience.
The result was the exhibit First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, which opened at Beijing’s Art Museum of the Imperial City on the first day of the Olympics in August 2008.
In 2013, Civilization Museum curators Jean-Luc Pilon and Nicholette Prince showcased the exhibit in this coffee-table book. Brimming with images of the artifacts, First Peoples of Canada will delight anyone with an appreciation for Aboriginal history or a love of fine artistic craftsmanship.
— Mark Collin Reid (Read bio)
Mark Collin Reid is the Editor-in-Chief of Canada's History.