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Patrick Samuel McGuire was a member of the Staastas Eagle clan. His father was Sam McGuire of Ojibwaay-Irish heritage and his mother, Nora Tulip, was Haida. He was born and raised in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, where his uncle, Joe Tulip, taught him about Haida art and culture. Patrick started drawing from an early age, and was given tools to begin carving from his Uncle Edmund Calder, who also gave him books so that he could begin studying Haida art. His distinctive carving style was marked by clean, sweeping lines, especially evident in his primary crests, the Eagle and the Whale. McGuire eventually moved to Vancouver, quickly forming an unofficial school of argillite carving, where he worked with artists such as Alfred Collinson, Ronald Russ, Doug Wilson, and Pat and Denny Dixon. At the age of twenty seven he died of a heroin overdose.

Born: 1943-06-05
Died: 1970-12-11