"Canadian 'History Minute' spot on Emily Carr"

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“National Film Board of Canada short film for kids on Emily Carr”

“A virtual exhibit on the life of Emily Carr”

“The full text of some of Emily Carr's books is available from Project Gutenberg of Australia.”

“Several dozen Emily Carr artworks are viewable through the collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.”

“Gallery of Carr's paintings”

“I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.”

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Entertainment1963

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— William Westmoreland

Military1914–2005

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— Edwin Arthur Burtt

Philosophy1892–1989

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