they came from away
and with wicked logic
and twisted ancient words
declared this land empty
and then made it so
A printed page of advertisements runs across the upper part, with a landscape across the lower part (J. E. H. MacDonald, Wind, Rain and Sunshine, 1910) and a cut-out figure at the right of a Blackfoot woman and child in a papoose (from page 168 of Marquis of Lorne's Canadian Pictures, 1885).