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Montreal his home and that in many houses there were paintings from his early career. Way began his CPR commission on the Atlantic coast and travelled westward along the railway line to British Columbia. In 1899 he exhibited paintings of the Rocky Mountains with the RCA. His job finished, he returned to Lausanne, Switzerland where he died in 1919.
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In the spring of 1873, due to a smallpox outbreak in
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American Scenery, Being selections from C.J. Way's Studies, 1863-64", a pictorial album of views of North American Scenery with 12 mounted photographs by W. Notman was produced from Way's sepia watercolour studies by Notman. In 1865, "Notman's Photographic Selections, Second
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Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) to paint a series of Canadian landscapes. He returned to Canada for about two years with his daughter Aimée, also an artist, and became a member of the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal. It was reported in a local paper that he
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