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In [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 24, 325-334 (1992; Zbl 0770.17005); J. Lond. Math. Soc. 52, 461-470 (1995; Zbl 0999.17021)] the author investigated an elementary approach to the canonical bases of irreducible representations of quantum \(\text{GL}_n\), using his elementary definition of the Kazhdan-Lusztig bases for \(q\)-Schur algebras. In this paper he first interprets an irreducible module for quantum \(\text{GL}_n\) in terms of a certain cell module of a \(q\)-Schur algebra, and then proves that the canonical basis agrees with the defining basis for the cell module. So his approach is somewhat indirect and needs results on cell modules of the corresponding Hecke algebra, in particular, the result that two left cell modules are isomorphic if and only if the two left cells lie in the same two-sided cell. He also presents another proof for the canonical basis theorem of type A. Here, one does not need any cell modules for \(q\)-Schur algebras. The proof rests only on several properties of the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements and the combinatorial characterization of cells of symmetric groups. A by-product of the work gives a canonical basis theorem for \(q\)-Specht modules which can also be regarded as a different version of \textit{D. Kazhdan} and \textit{G. Lusztig} [Invent. Math. 53, 165-184 (1979; Zbl 0499.20035)]. It is pointed out that, although these properties are well known, the positivity property of the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, is required which is proved using perverse sheaves and intersection cohomology.