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Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
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Creative Artists
Not until after Ottawa had progressed from a young, pioneering
society to a more mature one did culture begin to figure at all
in the city's English and French communities. Even then it led a
very tenuous existence. Moreover until the First World War, the
capital's intellectual reputation owed much to civil servants who
came to Ottawa to work for the federal government (an outstanding
example is the poet Duncan Campbell Scott, profiled in this section)
and to British governors-generals and their wives, who lent their
patronage to music, drama, a National Gallery and a Royal Society.
Only in recent decades has Ottawa developed a lively arts scene,
aided and abetted by such artists as Victor Tolgesy, the well-known
sculptor, and writers, whose ranks have included Irene Spry, the
economist and historian. Both are profiled in this section.
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