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What Canada Needs Now is a Real Leader

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24-Apr-88

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3029201

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John Peter Stacey Pickersgill collection

What Canada Needs Now is a Real Leader
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24-Apr-88

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1 drawing/dessin : pen and black ink on commercial board
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From the series Gargoyle Gossip, syndicated to the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Halifax Daily News and the Sunday Express, St. John's during 1988-1990. Four panels showing two gargoyles from the Peace Tower discussing the poor leadership in Canada. In the fourth panel is Wilfrid Laurier, the suggestion for a new leader.

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Artist: Pickersgill, Peter, 1945-

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Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in black ink, recto u.l.: Gargoyle/gossip/by PIC/Nostalgia sweeps/Parliament Hill.../what Canada/needs now/is a/real/leader.; recto u.r.: someone:/who knows what's wrong and right/who's not afraid to fight/whose words are a delight/whose flashing eyese excite/whose hair's a brilliant white...; recto c.l.: .....john turner?...; recto c.: No.; recto l.c.: The/twenty/first/century/belongs/to/canada.; recto l.r.: Hi!/my name's/Wilfrid/what's/yours?
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique
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Private

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123-040536-4
1996-009 DAP
95-264
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