Cape Croker Cenotaph

Cape Croker, Ontario
Type
Other

Following the end of the Great War, Cape Croker erected a cenotaph in honour of local citizens who died in the conflict. The cenotaph features a young soldier from the First World War, standing tall on top of a granite base, grasping his rifle vertically in front of him.

Two additional stele where added in 1999 listing the wars and conflicts of which soldiers from this community have served and honouring all from Cape Croker who were killed in war service.

Ontario war memorials based on the same template as Cape Croker's were constructed in Kemptville, Sunderland and Wiarton. 

Inscription

[front/devant]

[left/gauche]
WARS

1812 - 1814
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
KOREAN
1950 - 1953
DESERT STORM
1991

[center/centre]
1914 - 1918

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
BY THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS
OF CAPE CROKER

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF THOSE OF THE BAND
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR

DANIEL ELLIOTT
JOSEPH ELLIOTT
ARCHIE D. JOHNSON
WILLIS KEESHIG
BARNEY KEESHIG
FRANK LAVALLEY JR
PAUL NADJIWON
JOSEPH SHAWON
ALEX TAYLOR

"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE"

[right/droit]
PEACEKEEPERS

YEMEN
EGYPT
CONGO
CYPRUS
BOSNIA
NATO

[base, left side/base, côté gauche]
1939-1945

ALFRED MCLEOD
ISADORE PEDONIQUOTT
BENJAMIN ASHKEWE
JOHN MCLEOD JR
HOWARD JONES
JACKSON CHEGAHNO
WILFRED LAMURANDIERE
ENOCH TAYLOR

Location
Cape Croker Cenotaph

Prarie and Community Centre Roads
Cape Croker
Ontario
GPS Coordinates
Lat. 44.9228742
Long. -81.0213045

Cape Croker Cenotaph

Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
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left side inscription

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statue

Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
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front Inscription

Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
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