He then studied sculpture with Elizabeth Wyn Wood at the Central Technical School and Emanuel Hahn at the Ontario College of Art.

[1] In 1929, Temporale and his brother, Peter, purchased an old ice house in Port Credit, a neighborhood in Mississauga, Ontario, and established the family business of Canadian Art Memorials Limited which delivered a wide range of sculpture, among them, cemetery gravestones.

He was best known for the high quality of his stone relief carving on numerous post offices, banks, bridges, educational institutions and hospitals in Hamilton and Toronto.

[5] In 1938–1939, he was commissioned to create a 13-panel limestone bas relief carvings depicting Communications & Transportation on the side of the new Toronto Postal Delivery Building (which is now the Scotiabank Arena).

[6] He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy,[7] the Ontario Society of Artists[8] the Sculptors Society of Canada,[1] and the Monument Builders of North America Inc.[9] His life and business partner was his wife Margaret;[10] his partner was his son, Louis Jr. Temporale,[11] who is trying to help preserve his father's legacy.