This road commemorates the Canadian navy and merchant marine sailors who participated in the “Mourmansk Run”. It is a part of the National Field of Honour cemetery.
On June 22, 1941, the German army launched Operation Barbarossa, the massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Within four weeks, the Red Army had suffered heavy losses in troops and equipment, and, in response, the Soviet Union requested assistance from the British government. The British War Office responded by establishing the “Mournmansk Run” to ship vital war materiel and equipment to the northern Soviet port of Mournmansk. Several Canadian merchant ships took part in the Mournmansk Run, and Royal Canadian Navy destroyers were assigned to escort convoys from British ports to the Soviet Union. Four Canadian Tribal class destroyers, as well as the destroyers HMCS Sioux and Algonquin, participated in these convoy duties.
