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Susan Taylor

Susan Taylor spent 33 years at the Royal Canadian Mint. She began that time in 1981 as an Engraver working with oil based clay and waxed plaster. By the time she retired in 2017 Taylor, as Senior Engraver had adopted new technologies and guided the RCM into a modern age of digital design.

How does a career like that begin? As most of our careers have, at the kitchen table, as Taylor explained, “From early childhood

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