The Ontario sculptor Frances Loring was commissioned to produce a Great War memorial for the Law Society of Upper Canada, in Toronto. Loring began by working on a clay model, which the committee then reviewed and, after suggesting a few modifications, approved before she made a full?sized plaster cast that would be used by the eventual marble carvers to create an exact copy with the help of calipers and precise measurements. The cast was shipped to Italy, and Loring herself went to Carrara after it to select the marble to be used for the sculpture, and to supervise its carving. The memorial lists 115 lawyers and law students who died in the war.
