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- ↑ "Prizes". Canada Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
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- ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ↑ glenbow.org
- ↑ National Gallery of Canada's Cybermuse website [ permanent dead link ]
