British Columbia

ROLL OF HONOUR

1914 - 1918
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE JOURNALISTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
DURING THE GREAT WAR

FRANK COFFEE
AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES

FRANK DUNN
DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY

WILLIAM GARLAND FOSTER, M.C.
54TH BATTALION C.E.F.

JOSEPH GORMAN
R.A.F.

JAMES HEWITT
7TH BATTALION C.E.F.

THOMAS BELL INGLIS
47TH BATTALION C.E.F.

ALFRED J. LEVY
29TH BATTALION C.E.F.


WILLIAM MACAULAY
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY

NEIL MCINTYRE
16TH BATTALION C.E.F.

KENNETH MYERS
72ND BATTALION C.E.F.

EDWARD C. SHEPPARD
R.A.F.

HENRY SIVERTZ M.M. & 2 BARS
103RD BATTALION C.E.F.

ALBERT WALKER
C.F.A.

THEY GAVE THEIR BODIES TO THE COMMONWEALTH AND RECEIVED
EACH FOR HIS OWN MEMORY, PRAISE THAT WILL NEVER DIE
PERICLES

NOT HERE THEY FELL WHO DIED A WORLD TO SAVE
NOT HERE THEY LIE BUT IN A THOUSAND FIELDS AFAR
HERE IS THEIR LIVING SPIRIT THAT KNOWS NO GRAVE
NOT HERE THEY WERE - BUT ARE.

THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED AS A MEMORIAL
IN HONOURED TRIBUTE
TO THE SERVICE, SACRIFICE AND ACHIEVEMENT
OF OUR GALLANT COMRADES
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

48TH BATTALION, C.E.F. ASSOCIATION
3RD CANADIAN PIONEERS

VICTORIA
UNIT 27

THE KOREA VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (KVA CAN)
L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES VÉTÉRANS DE LA CORÉE (ACVC)

A MEMORIAL TO THE VALOUR OF
THOSE CANADIANS WHO IN THE
KOREAN WAR FOUGHT FOR THE
LIBERTIES OF CANADA, OF THE
UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, AND
OF HUMANITY.

1950 - 1953

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS
NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND MEN OF THE
50TH REGT. HIGHLANDERS
OF CANADA (GORDON HIGHLANDERS)
WHO FELL DURING
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

PRESENTED BY
THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER REGIMENT
1863 - 1988

1863 - NEW WESTMINSTER
VOLUNTEER RIFLES
1899 - 6TH BATTALION
DUKE OF CONNAUGHTS OWN RIFLES
1915 - 47TH BATTALION
CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
1936 - THE WESTMINSTER
REGIMENT

1874 - SEYMOUR BATTERY
OF GARRISON ARTILLERY
1910 - 104TH WESTMINSTER
FUSILIERS OF CANADA
1916 - 131ST BATTALION
CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
1967 - THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER
REGIMENT

COMMEMORATING 125 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE COUNTY OF WESTMINSTER
AND THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,
AND WITH DISTINCTION IN TWO WORLD WARS

TO THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE OFFICERS,
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,
AND MEN OF THE REGIMENT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN TWO WORLD WARS
16TH
BATTALION, C.E.F.
(THE CANADIAN
SCOTTISH)
1914-1918

1ST BN.
THE CANADIAN
SCOTTISH
REGIMENT
1939-1945

KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

THOSE WHOM THIS SCROLL
COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED
AMONG THOSE WHO, AT THE CALL
OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL
THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM,
ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER,
AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF
THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH
OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE,
GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT
OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM.
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER
SEE TO IT THAT THESE NAMES
BE NOT FORGOTTEN.
27,000 CANADIANS SERVED IN KOREA
516 CANADIANS WERE KILLED IN KOREA

[individual plaques/plaques individuelles]
SK14633 SGT. CURRIE, CLARENCE JOHN
WEST BANK

K800191 PTE GILLAN, JOHN ROBERT
VICTORIA

SK14832 TPR GRAY, KENNETH ALLEN
VANCOUVER

SK12663 CPL HASTINGS, DONALD PERKINS
NORTH VANCOUVER

K80062 PTE LAPKA, WILLIAM
VANCOUVER

SK3529 PTE MacPHERSON, DONALD WILLIAM
VANCOUVER

SK14658 GNR MILLER, EDWARD
VANCOUVER

SK8468 L/BDR RICHARDS, CYRIL WILLIAM
VICTORIA

[individual plaques/plaques individuelles]
K800386 GNR RIDDLE, JACK FRASER
VANCOUVER

SB163871 PTE ROBERTS, LOUIS CHARLES
PENTICTON

SL109717 CPL SCHWENNEKER, MELVIN HUGH E.
VANCOUVER

K800311 PTE STRACHAN, WILLIAM LESLIE
KELOWNA

SK8220 TPR WALDNER, GORDON HARRY
BURNABY

K800213 SPR WATSON, LEONARD ARTHUR
VANCOUVER

K800117 PTE WYLIE, LLOYD KEITH
VANCOUVER

6164e A.B. LISKA, VINCE
VICTORIA

IN MEMORY OF
64 OFFICERS & 1335 N.C.O.’S AND MEN
OF THE 7TH BATTALION C.E.F.
(FIRST BRITISH COLUMBIA REGIMENT)
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR : 1914-1918
IN THE SERVICE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE 7TH BATTALION WHO RETURNED

TO THE
MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO
DIED FOR KING
AND COUNTRY
IN THE
GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945

[plaque on base/plaque sur base]

THIS TABLET IN MEMORY OF THE
BRITISH COLUMBIA INDIANS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
WORLD WARS 1914 1918 – 1939 1945
WAS ERECTED BY THE
B.C. INDIAN ARTS & WELFARE SOCIETY

[stone plaque/plaque de pierre]

WORLD’S TALLEST TOTEM POLE
127 FEET, 7 INCHES
CARVED BY
MUNGO MARTIN, DAVID MARTIN, HENRY HUNT
DEDICATED JULY 2, 1956

• PEROY B. SCURRAH
• MAYOR OF VICTORIA
• HON. RAY WILLISTON
• MINISTER OF EDUCATION

STUART KEATE
SPONSOR

RAISED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION THROUGH THE
VICTORIA DAILY TIMES

[stone plaque/plaque de pierre]

THE LEGEND OF THE TOTEM
"MEMENTO OF THE NATION'S INFANCY, SYMBOL OF A PROUD RACE, MONUMENT
TO A RARE NATIVE ART, PROOF OF A UNITED COMMUNITY INTEREST
AND THE PUREST FORM OF CANADIANA." (VICTORIA DAILY TIMES)

• THE ANCESTRAL FIGURES ON THE WORLD'S TALLEST
• TOTEM POLE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE GEE-EKSEM
• CLAN OF THE KWA-KIUTL TRIBE OF COAST INDIANS FROM
• FORT RUPERT, NEAR PORT HARDY, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
• BOTTOM FIGURE IS GEE-EKSEM, DECENDARY "FIRST MAN"
• OF THE TRIBE, SAID TO HAVE BEEN CREATED AT GOLD
• BEACH ON THE NORTH END OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.
•   
• GEE-EKSEM ONE DAY SAW A STRANGE SIGHT. A TOTEM
• POLE GRADUALLY ROSE OUT OF THE BEACH. ON THE
• POLE WERE ALL THE ANIMALS NOW CARVED ON THE
• POLE, EACH MAKING ITS OWN REGULAR CRY. THE
• BOTTOM FIGURE WAS THAT OF A MAN WHO SAID TO HIM,
• "THESE BE YOUR CRESTS TO BE DSIPLAYED BY YOU
• AND YOUR DESCENDANTS." THE POLE THEN DISAPPEARED.
• AT NO TIME DURING THE LONG HISTORY OF THE TRIBE
• HAVE ALL THE FIGURES BEEN DISPLAYED ON ONE POLE
• UNTIL THIS ONE WAS CARVED BY CHEIF MUNGO MARTIN
• AND HIS ASSOCIATES.
•   
• NEXT ABOVE GEE-EKSEM ON THE TOTEM POLE IS
• HOHOO THE CANNIBAL BIRD. NEXT IS MUKINOOKW THE
• KILLER WHALE, THEN KLE-AKIN THE SEA LION WITH
• THE BROWN BACK, KWIKW THE EAGLE, THE GREY
• COLOURED SEA OTTER WITH A HALIBUT IN HIS MOUTH, 
• GWOY-IM THE WHALE WITH A MAN ON HIS BACK, THE
• MOUTH BEING THE WHALE'S BLOW-HOLE WITH A
• MAN'S FACE AT THE TAIL, BOTH ADDED DECORATIONS.
•   
• THEN COMES T-SOW THE BEAVER WITH TWO PROM-
• INENT FRONT TEETH, LAK-TOTE-PIS, THE SERVANT-MAN OF
• GEE-EKSEM, THEN MIQUAT THE SEAL WITH THE SPOTTED
• BACK, ULI-GUN THE BLACK WOLF, AND HOSAGAMI
• GEE-EKSEM'S POTLATCH RECORD-KEEPER.
•   
• THE TWO MEN AT THE TOP ARE "FIRST MAN" OF OTHER
• CLANS OF THE TRIBE. LA-LOX-UNDYU, WHO WAS BORN A
• KOLUS, A MYTHICAL BIRD WHICH WAS COVERED WITH
• DOWN AND NEVER GREW FEATHERS, AND SINKLAH-EE,
• WHO WAS FIRST CREATED AS KLESELA, THE SUN.
•   
• THE CEDAR POLE WAS CARVED WITH ANTIVE ADZE
• AND KNIFE, TAKING SIX MONTHS FROM THE TIME IT
• WAS FELLED AT MUIR CREEK, UNTIL ERECTION IN 1956.
•   

SPELLING IS PHONETIC, TO GIVE THE APPROXIMATE
PRONUCIAITON.