Canada History Week 2020: Environmental History Learning Tool

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE GROUP OF SEVEN The Group of Seven’s landscape paintings have become symbols of Canada’s wilderness. Here is a selection of works included in a special 100th anniversary exhibit.

October, North Shore by A.J. Casson from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

EMILY CARR

Through her paintings and short stories, Emily Carr fostered awareness of First Nations cultures. She provided a unique vision of the coastal landscape that made Canadians look at the forest in a new way.

Emily Carr/Lewis DeSoto/Extraordinary Canadians. Courtesy Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

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