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The Canadian landscape as Art. Stanley Thompson, Golf Course Architecture, the Group of Seven, and the Aesthetic of Canadian Nationalism

Jordan GoldsteinWilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; [email protected]
Pages 105-125 | Published online: 13 Dec 2020

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