From 1947 to 1951 Walter Trier worked as a designer for J.S. McLean’s successful meat-packing business, Canada Packers Limited. Reference1 Walter Trier, a sensitive artist who created many advertisements for groceries by Canada Packers Limited, once spoke with a shudder about “the anguished bugling” of some six thousand cattle, hogs and lambs which every day are readied for slaughter in the coast-to-coast company’s headquarters plant on St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto.
“That business,” he said, “would make an ogre of most men. But it is run by a butcher with the soul of a poet.”
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- Walter Trier (25 June 1890, Prague – 8 July 1951 Craigleith, near Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) was a Czech-German illustrator, best known for his work for the children’s books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput.
