Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star November 1950. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star November 1950. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star November 1950. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram November 1950. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram November 1950. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Memorial at Canoe River train crash site. In November of 1950 thousands of soldiers were sent to Fort Lewis, Washington, for training before their journey to Korea. They went by rail. At 10:35 in the morning of November 21st, a troop train carrying 340 soldiers - soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery - was just east of the village of Canoe River, British Columbia. An express train on the same track was speeding in the opposite direction. And the two crashed, head-on. The troop train was tossed into the air, its engine thrown back onto the coach cars behind it. Steel cars were shattered by other steel cars in a raging inferno. Seventeen Canadian soldiers died that morning, and the bodies of four of them were never found. Many of those who escaped death suffered horrible injury including massive burns. The sacrifice made by the men at Canoe River was no less than that of all war veterans who died in the service of our country. These Canoe River men also died so that others might live in peace. We remain eternally in their debt.

Monument – Reverse of Korean War Veterans War Memorial. It is a memorial to the victims of the Canoe River crash. The monument is located in the Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Inscription

Korean War Monument – Ottawa Ontario

Korean War Monument – Detail of the Korean War Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. This features a Canadian soldier, facing toward Busan, Korea, where an identical monument watches over the graves of 378 Canadians in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Accompanying the volunteer are two Korean children, both holding symbols: the girl, a bouquet of maple leaves symbolizing Canada; and the boy, a bouquet of maple leaves and roses of Sharon, the national flower of Korea.

Dedicatory Inscription on the Korean War Memorial – Dedication Panel, Korean War Monument Ottawa

Inscription – Gunner ARDEN JOSEPH ATCHISON, is one of 23 soldiers commemorated on this panel (his surname is spelled incorrectly as Atchinson) and is one of the 516 soldiers whose names appear on the Korean War Monument in Ottawa. It was erected IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE CANADIAN WHO DIED IN SERVICE DURING THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 AND ON KOREAN PEACE KEEPING DUTIES, 1953-1957. Gunner ARDEN JOSEPH ATCHISON was one of 17 soldiers who died on November 21, 1950 when a westbound train carrying troops of the 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery collided with an eastbound train (Vancouver to Montréal) just east of Canoe River, B.C. He is buried in the LOON RIVER CEMETERY Saskatchewan, Canada

Canoe River Train Accident – Account of the Canoe River Train Accident (Source: Veterans Affairs Canada)