The monument was erected by the municipalities of Humboldt, Three Lakes, St. Peters, Wolverine, and the Town of Humbolt.
Samuel Hooper, an architect appointed Manitoba’s first Provincial Architect in 1904 and sculptor formed Hooper Marble and Granite Works to supply monuments. Despite Hooper’s death in 1911, the firm continued to operate; in the early 1920s, it was advertising regularly in the newspaper, with a factory in St. Boniface and a showroom at Portage and Spence, in Winnipeg. Hooper was contracted to put up a handsome obelisk in Humboldt, Saskatchewan in 1920.
