George William Hill RCA (1861 – 1934) was one of the Canada's foremost sculptors during the first half of the 20th century because of his numerous public memorials.

[1] He was elected in 1917 as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

He began to carve marble in his father's workshop and worked there for eight years and he became a chief sculptor[4] then went to Paris in 1889 to study at the École nationale des beaux-arts with Alexandre Falguière,Jean Paul Laurens,[5] Henri Chapu at the Académie Julian and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Académie Colarossi.

[3] He returned to Canada about 1894 and worked with the architects William Sutherland and Edward Maxwell.

In 1902 he had won his first commission, the Strathcona and South African soldiers' memorial.