“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”

— Gabrielle Roy

Gabrielle Roy, in the back of the Canadian $20 bill (On September 29, 2004, the Bank of Canada issued a $20 bank note in the Canadian Journey Series which included a quotation from Gabrielle Roy book The Hidden Mountain- La Montagne secrète - 1961)

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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