Over two years, the parameters for a competition were created by a team consisting of, among others, the Deputy Minister of Public Works, J. B. Hunter, who had experience with the process of creating numerous memorials in Canada; Eric Brown, former Director of the National Gallery of Canada and a member of the Canadian War Artists Advisory Committee; and Colonel H. C. Osborne, who acted as Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission.[34] On 12 February 1925, design proposals were sought, with a budget for the monument set at $100,000.[2] Entrants were limited to residents of the British Empire who were British subjects or who were citizens of allied nations.