Campbell River Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Campbell River, BC
Memorial number: 59028-003
Type: Stele - stone and concrete
Address: Shoppers Row and 11th Avenue
Location: Spirit Square
GPS coordinates: Lat: 50.0264042 Long: -125.244952
Submitted by: Laurel LePine; J.R.G. Edwards; Marjorie Chester
The Campbell River Cenotaph was spearheaded by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 137. A committee began fundraising in early 1952 and it became a community effort to erect a cenotaph with a brass plaque naming the fallen soldiers from the community. The land was donated by Carl Thulin, who also drove to Victoria to pick up and deliver the large stone monument. It was installed on the shores of Willow Bay, across from the Legion on the corner of 12th Street. The BC Power Commission donated rocks for a small seawall to protect the cenotaph and loaned their workmen for construction. A flagpole for the cenotaph was donated by the Village Commission.
The cenotaph was dedicated on Remembrance Day, 1952, but did not yet have a brass plaque naming those who were lost. Remembrance Day 1959 saw the last service at the cenotaph’s original location. It was relocated with the construction of the Tyee Plaza. The plaque was added in 1961, shortly after it had been reinstalled in the Tyee Plaza, with the names of 10 men from the First World War, and seven men from the Second World War.
During the construction of Spirit Square in 2009, the cenotaph was moved to its current location. Due to the efforts of the Campbell River Genealogical Society, the plaque was updated with two new names from the First World War and corrected spellings for four of the original names.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN WORLD WARS.
1914 — 1918 - 1939 — 1945
LEST WE FORGET
[base/bas]
KOREA WAR VETERANS
1950 - 1953
[plaque]
THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED AS A
MEMORIAL IN HONOURED TRIBUTE
TO THE SERVICE, SACRIFICE AND
ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MEN OF
CAMPBELL RIVER AND DISTRICT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE TWO WORLD WARS
1914 — 1918
- W. A. FISKE
- MATHEW SHIELDS
- W. E. HUCK
- WILLIAM HAWKINS
- GEORGE CARNEY
- ANDREW LAW
- C. C. CAFFERATA
- GEORGE E. MUNROE
- JACK STRICKLAND
- GEORGE GARDINER
1939 — 1945
- DAVID W. VANSTONE
- T. C. STEWART WOOD
- BASIL WHITING
- ROBERT E. PERKINS
- ELMER OSWALD
- WILLIAM MUIR
- GEORGE RALPH
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"
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