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Holgate was born in Allandale, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bessie Bell (Headley) and Henry Holgate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edwin Holgate |url=http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=9205&type=pge |website=www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/ |publisher=Government of Quebec |access-date=2021-05-06}}</ref> Holgate's family moved to [[Jamaica]] in 1895 where his father worked as an engineer. In 1897 he was sent to [[Toronto]] to go to school. In 1901 his family returned from Jamaica and settled in Montreal.
Holgate studied at the [[Art Association of Montreal]] under [[William Brymner]] (who also taught [[A. Y. Jackson]]), [[Alberta Cleland]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://beaverhallgroup.weebly.com/edwin-holgate.html |title=Edwin Headley Holgate |work=The Beaver Hall Group Canada's other Group of Seven |publisher=Gibbs Appraisals Ltd |access-date=2014-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142241/http://beaverhallgroup.weebly.com/edwin-holgate.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=live }}</ref> and later [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]]. From 1910 until 1923, he exhibited in the annual Spring Exhibitions almost every year.<ref name="cogeval">{{cite book |last1=Cogeval |first1=Guy |title=Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |publisher=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|others=Rosalind Pepall, Brian Foss |location=Montreal |access-date=2021-05-06}}</ref> In 1912, he studied in [[Paris]]. He was travelling in the [[Ukraine]] at the outset of [[World War I]], and was forced to cross [[Asia]] to return to Canada. He returned to [[France]] with the Canadian Army.<ref name=ngc>{{cite web |url=http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/artist_e.jsp?iartistid=2482 |title=Edwin Holgate |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=2014-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025093001/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/artist_e.jsp?iartistid=2482 |archive-date=2015-10-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Holgate's first exhibition was held at the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. In 1933, he had a he had a solo exhibition at the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].<ref name="cogeval" /> He taught wood engraving at the [[École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal]] from 1928 to 1934, then with [[Lilias Torrance Newton]] directed art classes at the Museum from 1934 to 1936 and again, from 1938 to 1940.<ref name="cogeval" />
Holgate was the ninth member of the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] — he was invited to join the group in March 1929.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Silcox|first1=David P.|title=The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson|date=2011|publisher=Firefly Books Ltd.|isbn=978-1-55407-154-8|page=47}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/servlet/imageserver?src=DO93-1000&ext=x.pdf|title=CHARLES HILL INTERVIEW WITH EDWIN HOLGATE|last=Hill|first=Charles|date=20 September 1973|website=National Gallery of Canada|access-date=17 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031943/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/servlet/imageserver?src=DO93-1000&ext=x.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1934 he was elected an associate of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]]. He was elected a full member in 1935. He resigned in 1945 but was reinstated in 1953.<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |access-date=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archive-date=26 May 2011 }}</ref> He was also a founding member of the [[Canadian Group of Painters]].<ref name="Bradfield">{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario. The Permanent Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |access-date=2020-07-07}}</ref>
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