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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]] with [[Alberta Cleland]] (beginning in 1905),<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> [[William Brymner]] (who also taught [[A. Y. Jackson]]), and later [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]].<ref name="pepall">{{cite web |last1=Pepall |first1=Rosalind |title='An Art of Vigour and Restraint". Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |publisher=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|others=Rosalind Pepall, Brian Foss |location=Montreal|url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Edwin%20Holgate.%20Rosalind%20Pepall,%20Brian%20Foss.%20Montreal:%20Montreal%20Museum%20of%20Fine%20Arts&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 | |access-date=2021-05-07}}</ref> From 1910 until 1923, he exhibited in the annual Spring Exhibitions almost every year.<ref name="cogeval">{{cite book |last1=Cogeval |first1=Guy |title='Director`s Foreword". Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |publisher=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|others=Rosalind Pepall, Brian Foss |location=Montreal|url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Edwin%20Holgate.%20Rosalind%20Pepall,%20Brian%20Foss.%20Montreal:%20Montreal%20Museum%20of%20Fine%20Arts&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 |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" />
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