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In 1973, Shields became editorial assistant for the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers while living in Ottawa 1968 – 1978.

In 1977, Shields was a sessional lecturer in the English Department at the University of Ottawa for a year.

She later taught Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while living in Vancouver 1978 – 80.

In 1980, she and Don settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after Don was hired to teach in the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Engineering.

Winnipeg was where she wrote her major books.

From the fall of 1982 onward, Carol Shields taught in the English Department at the University of Manitoba, first as an Assistant Professor ( 1982 – 1992 ), then as an Associate Professor ( 1992 – 1995 ).

Shields was made Full Professor of English in 1995, and, on retirement in 2000, she became Professor Emerita at the University of Manitoba ..

In 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

In 2000, after Don's retirement, the couple moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where she died in 2003 of breast cancer at age 68.