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THE SIX BEST GIFTS FROM CANADA – Creative people, looking for someone to charm

Creative people’s souvenirs you take home Something to take home https://www.ucanada.com/en/canadian-souvenirs as a memento of your trip to Canada? In souvenir shops, you will find bottles of maple syrup, a viscous molasses extracted from the sap of black maple. You could choose from excellent Inuit art made from semi-precious stones, or some gadget from a hockey team. There is not …

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THE CARTOONIST WHO SPOKE LITTLE AND WRITE A LOT – Rand Holmes and the island of Lasqueti, between comics and oil painting

The Canadian illustrator known for his underground comics Artistically speaking, his story as a cartoonist began on Edmonton’s windy plateau, flourished between Vancouver and San Francisco, and ended in a backwater in the Strait of Georgia on Lasqueti Island. In his later years, on Lasqueti Island, Rand Holmes https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-artist-himself focused on surrealist oil painting, with a specific predilection for Magritte, …

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