“Sotheby’s Canada returned to the top of the heap in 2003 as the country’s premiere live auctioneer of fine Canadian art, grossing a total of almost $11-million from sales it held in May and November in Toronto. In recent years the company, which has run a Canadian operation for more than 30 years, has ceded its pre-eminence to the other two big players in the fine-art resale market, Toronto’s Joyner Waddington’s Auctioneers and Appraisers and Vancouver-based Heffel Fine Art… Sotheby’s return to form flows out of the decision by its New York parent in early 2001 to bring two high-powered Canadians into its Toronto office.”