Tweed War Memorial Stained Glass
Municipality/Province: Tweed, ON
Memorial number: 35032-032
Type: Stained Glass Window
Address: 52 McClellan Street
Location: Tweed-Hungerford Senior Public School
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.475000693245974 Long: -77.3184886359573
Submitted by: Victoria Edwards
In the early 1920’s, a memorial stained glass window was erected by Robert McCausland Company in the local highschool to honour Tweed, Ontario’s fallen soldiers from World War I amid dignitaries Brigadier General A. E. Ross and the Reverend Dr. Bruce Taylor, Principal of Queen’s University. The three panel stained glass window depicts a soldier armed with bayonet at its centre and bookended either side with the names of the dead from the Tweed area. The window was erected in honour of those who had paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Great War. A local restoration team from Sunrise Glass Works performed repair work in the early 1970’s when the school board was in the midst of tearing down the original part of the high school, erected near the end of World War I. The window migrated to a safe spot in a newer addition to the school.
Inscription found on memorial
This window, manufactured by the Robert McCausland Company of Toronto, was dedicated in memory of those of the Tweed area who gave their lives in defence of honour, justice and liberty (1914-1918), unveiled by local veterans, Thomas N Beatty and Charles Porritt, the window was dedicated on December 16th 1921 by Rev Dr Bruce Taylor, Principal, Queen's University assisted by Brigadier General A.E. Ross. Restored in 1975 by the sunrise glass works of Tweed the window was re-dedicated on November 11th 1976 by Rev I Munro, president Tweed Branch 428, Royal Canadian Legion.
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