Cam Tinning, the artist who designed the Memorial Albert Street Bridge. Top Picture: 2720 College Avenue. Cam Tinning (aged 20) and his younger brother Bob on the lawn of their home at 2128 McIntyre Street. The family lived in three Regina houses between 1925 and 1938. Cam was the middle child of three – his sister Grace being two years his senior. His father George Richard Tinning was a bank manager with the Union Bank of Canada. When it merged with the Royal Bank of Canada in 1925 Tinning Sr. became an executive official at the RBC. The Tinning family was originally from Toronto, Ontario. Tinning’s earliest design work was for the Albert Street Bridge. Completed in 1930 the bridge was to hold plaques engraved with the names of Saskatchewan soldiers who died in the “Great War”. Tinning’s designs of Queen Victoria’s head, the provincial crest and a buffalo head were used instead. Tinning studied Art at Regina College under J.H. Lee-Grayson who wrote about his former pupil: “Very serious indeed, a draughtsman of exceptional ability, vigorous in execution, splendid conception and most enthusiastic.” (Letter June 9th, 1932.)
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