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Brent Townsend is a Canadian
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nature
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who in 1996 designed the portrait of a polar bear
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in early summer on an ice floe that appears on the current Canadian 2 dollar coin. Born in Toronto, Townsend no longer lives in Campbellford, Ontario.
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