Elizabeth Wyn Wood was born at her family's cottage on Cedar Island, just offshore from Orillia, Ontario, on October 8, 1903.

During the summer months, the family spent the majority of their time on the lake, and Wood learned how to swim and canoe at an early age.

[1] Wood demonstrated an affinity for sculpture at a young age, using plasticine and clay to create art as a child.

In November 1926, Wood began a two-month placement at the Art Students League of New York, studying under Robert Laurent and Edward McCarton.

The Welland-Crowland War Memorial designed by Elizabeth Wyn Wood, features two heroic figures, Man the Defender and Woman the Giver, set against the Canadian landscape.

Sculpted from LaCass Granite located in Quebec, the piece was cut to size by the Thomson Monument Company based on Wood's full-size clay model.

Unlike vintage sculptures, Wyn Wood includes elements of red pine and wheat sheaves based on a World War I trench mortar.

As a Council member, she served as Organizing Secretary (1944–45), Chair of the International Relations Committee (1945–48), and Vice President (1945–48).

Simplicity is not an end it itself, but Elizabeth Wyn Wood’s simplifications are magnificent attempts to bring order and control into an environment of distraction.

Her search for the image in the material, her purification of form and contour, reveal a spirit of great nobility and composure.