I just googled the name on the plaque at the Simcoe Lake farm I was painting this weekend ........... and look at what I found :o)






September 3, 2005, a plaque was unveiled by the Ontario in honour Sir Byron Edmund Walker at his summer residence at DeGrassi Point, Lake Simcoe, Ontario. A banker and philanthropist, Walk

er’s legacy is enormously important to the Canadian cultural scene as he was pivotal in establishing this country’s great institutions, which include the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery, the Champlain Society, Appleby College. 

Invitation to the BEW Plaque unveiling

The plaque is mounted so that it overlooks the beautiful Arts and Craft’s style gentleman’s farm Frank Darling designed for Walker in 1913. Lady Walker called this 100 acre farm, and the abutting 250 acres of oak forest, savanna grasslands and lake front, “Innisfree”.