George William Hill RCA (1861 in Shipton, Eastern Townships, Quebec – 1934) was a Canadian sculptor. He was known as one of Canada's foremost sculptor during the first half of the 20th century, because of his numerous public memorials.[1] He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[2] He traveled to Paris in 1889 to study at the École nationale des beaux-arts and at the Académie Julian, and returned to Montreal in 1894 to open his workshop and begin producing public memorials.[3]

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George William Hill
George William Hill (circa 1920)
Born	8 May 1861 Shipton, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada
Died	17 July 1934 Outremont (Montreal)
Known for	sculptor

Works

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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George Brown (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s D'Arcy McGee (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial (1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial(1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Boer War Memorial (Montreal) (1907) in Square Dorchester,
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Lion of Belfort (Montreal) in Square Dorchester, Montreal, Quebec

• War Memorial, Harbord Collegiate School,286 Harbord St., Toronto, Ontario
• War Memorial, Pictou, Nova Scotia
• War Memorial, Westmount, Montreal, Quebec
• Charlottetown Veterans Memorial at Province House, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

References

External links

• George Hill Letter at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003". biographi.ca. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved September 25, 2020.

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