In honor of the Patron Saint of the Acadians, the French prayed and implored mothers to protect and bring back their sons from the War. Like "The Madonna", this Amphibious Armored Troop Carrier is the first "Modern Battle Wagon" developed to protect and bring back alive the infantry forces from the battlefields. This type of vehicle is also used as an ambulance, to transport civilians during major disasters, and for Canadian peacekeeping missions around the world.
Anderson Siding was named Saint-Quentin in 1919 after a major Canadian victory over the Germans in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme near Saint-Quentin, France.
This transporter, "The Madonna", was built by the United States and acquired by Canada in 1965. It has served on several Peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, as well as during training in Canada and Germany. Oriented towards the polar star, this "Good Star" which served as a guide and landmark for our French discoverers such as Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, our soldiers, our fishermen at sea, our pioneers who spotted to show them the north and bring them back to their destination.
"The Madonna" painted on a wall of the Roy Ancestral Home after the Second World War by Mrs. Clair Roy: House where were raised Flight Sergeant Léopold Roy and his brother, soldier L. Valmont Roy, who died as a hero during the Normandy Landings in France, June 6, 1944.
