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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
He worked as a war artist in [[England]] during [[World War II]]. On his return to Montreal after the war, he found that the arts scene had changed, with the arrival of the [[Les Automatistes|Automatistes]]. He left Montreal to live in the [[Laurentides|Laurentians]] in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/crombie-collection/the-group-of-seven/edwin-holgate/|title=Edwin Holgate|website=The Sobey Art Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122073008/http://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/crombie-collection/the-group-of-seven/edwin-holgate/|archive-date=2018-01-22|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1954 he was one of eighteen Canadian artists commissioned by the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] to paint a [[mural]] for the interior of one of the new [[Park series|Park cars]] entering service on the new ''[[Canadian (train)|Canadian]]'' transcontinental train. Each the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Holgate's was [[Mont-Tremblant National Park]].<ref name="cr2004">{{cite journal | url=http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no503_2004.pdf | title=The 50th Anniversary of the CPR Stainless Steel Passenger Fleet | journal=Canadian Rail | date=November–December 2004 | issue=503 | pages=211–223 | access-date=2015-02-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924005431/http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no503_2004.pdf | archive-date=2015-09-24 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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