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Allward first served an apprenticeship with the architectural firm Gibson and Simpson before working at the Don Valley Brick Works, where he modelled architectural ornaments.
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Statue of John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario | Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada by Walter Seymour Allward 1903 Queen's Park ( Toronto )
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Design was started in 1932 by architects from the firm of Peter Allward and George Gouinlock.
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Allward made 150 design sketches before submitting the design which won the commission from the Canadian federal government.
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This early training, supplemented by modelling classes at the New Technical School, prepared Allward for his lifelong career as a monumental sculptor.
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* Two statues by Canadian sculptor Walter S. Allward:
Statue of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine by Walter Seymour Allward on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Created by Walter Seymour Allward who is best known for his design of the " mammoth Canadian Battlefields Memorial in Vimy, France ( 1922-36 ), that commemorated the important battle of Vimy Ridge.
" Allward created the statue of LaFontaine and Baldwin which rests on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
The ground floor features plaster casts ( maquettes ) used by sculptor Walter Allward in the design of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in Vimy, France.
Walter Seymour Allward ( 18 November 1876 – 24 April 1955 ) was a Canadian monumental sculptor.
Allward was born in Toronto, the son of John A. Allward of Newfoundland.
Also in 1903, Allward was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1918 became a full academician.
Allward had also completed design work on a memorial to King Edward VII but the onset of the World War I prevented its completion.
The memorial was originally to be completed by 1912 but Allward did not finish it until five years later.
Allward designed the monument to symbolize the telephone's ability to overcome distances.
The most important and famous commission Allward received was for the monument to commemorate Canadians killed in the First World War, a project which would occupy him from 1921 till the memorial's unveiling in 1936.
In June 1922, Allward set up a studio in London, England and toured for more almost two years to find a find a stone of the right colour, texture, and luminosity for the memorial.
Allward chose a relatively new construction method, a cast concrete frame to which the limestone was bonded.
The carvers used half-size plaster models produced by Allward in his studio and an instrument called a pantograph to reproduce the huge figures to the proper scale.
* April 24 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor ( b. 1876 )
Both the tomb and sculpture reflect some of the themes and style of the Vimy Memorial, designed by Walter Seymour Allward.
The memorial took monument designer Walter Seymour Allward eleven years to build.
In 1965 Lt. Col. D. R. Stewart Allward acquired the castle and over about ten years fully restored it.
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