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James Blomfield

He was married in 1903 to Mary Augusta Diamond of Belleville, Ontario, who predeceased him in 1930.

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Some time after the turn of the century, he went to Washington State and later to Chicago where he became professor of design at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art.

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He is best known for his design of the coat of arms of Vancouver and as a pioneer in the field of stained glass art in Canada, with an extensive body of works completed in British Columbia and Ontario, including the Beechwood Cemetery Mausoleum in Canada's national cemetery in Ottawa.

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