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This memorial, erected by the Royal Canadian Legion, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars.

The Grandview First World War Tablet is set in a triangular shaped plot of land that was originally designated as Grandview Memorial Park. The land was donated by the Town of Grandview. The tablet is of a white stone material with commemorative text and names of the deceased cut into it. 

The Memorial Bell and First World War Tablet were established by the Girls Guild of Grandview to honour men from the Town and District who died in service during the First World War. 

The Grandview Cenotaph is also located here.

The Grandview Cenotaph is set in a triangular shaped plot of land that was originally designated as Grandview Memorial Park. It was donated by the Town of Grandview and it is understood that the Town and the Rural Municipality supported the original construction of the cenotaph which was turned over to Branch 14 of the Royal Canadian Legion to use and maintain.

Originally erected to commemorate those who lost their lives in the First World War, plaques were added in the late 1940’s to recognize those who served and died in the Second World War. In July of 2005, two plaques, one to honour Korean War Veterans and one for Peacekeeping Veterans were added.

The cenotaph sits on an oversized concrete base and is a large cairn constructed of concrete covered with small rounded river stones. Concrete sidewalks are on all four sides of the base and a concrete sidewalk leads southeast to the cenotaph from Main Street. It is lit with three ground-mounted floodlights and a white-painted flagpole sits to the south west of the cenotaph.

A Memorial Bell and First World War Tablet are located to the north of the cenotaph.

The Russell Cenotaph was unveiled at a ceremony on June 22, 1922, in the presence of approximately 2,000 people from the surrounding district. It was erected by local Veterans in memory of the 83 men from the Town of Russell, Village of Binscarth and the Rural Municipalities of Boulton, Russell, Silver Creek and Shellmouth, who laid down their lives in the Great War.

Emanuel Hahn's design represents the sorrows caused by war. The soldier atop the cenotaph looks down in sadness at the ground below him, as if he might find there, his fallen comrades, if not for the tragedy of war. The statue depicts a young, grieving Canadian soldier in First World War army uniform. With uncovered head, he is standing at a battlefield grave – a simple cross with poppies and a broken chain at the base and the flag draped behind it – the final resting place of a comrade killed in action. His left hand rests on the cross, while his right hand holds a reversed rifle. His helmet is slung over his shoulder.

Plaques commemorating the Second World War dead were added on November 11, 1980, as a result of a donation by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 159. In 1999, the head of the soldier atop the memorial was removed by vandals. It was later recovered and reattached. The monument was refurbished in 2000 as a project of the 677 Russell Royal Canadian Air Cadets and funded by a Millennium grant from the Department of National Defence. Additional donations were provided by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 159, Pelly Trail Metis Federation, Town of Russell, and several individuals. 

Emanuel Hahn moved to Toronto at the age of seven with his family of artists and musicians from Germany, in 1888. He studied commercial design and model-making at Toronto Technical School and Ontario College of Art and Industrial Design. At 25 years old Hahn began a nearly lifelong contract with Thomson Monument Company of Toronto. Two years later, he also started work as a studio assistant to sculptor Walter Seymour Allward. Part of his duties included assisting on Allward’s significant works such as the South African War Memorial in Toronto.

In 1912 Hahn began an association with the Thomson Monument Company of Toronto. It was there, along with several assistants, he made the many war memorials that are found across Canada: Fernie, British Columbia; Killarney and Russell, Manitoba; Alvinston, Bolton, Cornwall, Hanover, Lindsay,  Malvern, Milton, Petrolia and Port Dalhousie, Ontario; Gaspe, Quebec; Moncton, New Brunswick; Springhill and Westville Nova Scotia; Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

Hahn is probably most famous as the designer of the Bluenose on the back of the Canadian dime and the Caribou on the back of the Canadian quarter. He was a victim of anti-German sentiment in the years following the Great War, when his design for the Winnipeg Cenotaph was rejected in 1925.

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 228, this memorial is dedicated to the veterans of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

This school was named in honour of Lt. Colonel Barker V.C.

The original memorial was built in 1920, a tall carved memorial flanked by spear and drapery motifs on the main body. The Government donated a German artillery gun from the First World War to Gilbert Plains in 1920 and it became part of the original war memorial. The gun was taken for scrap metal during the Second World War. It was found out afterwards that three quarters of the metal from the gun ended up in Japan because someone stole the metal and sold it.

The rural municipality fronted money for the next memorial which was supplied by Thompson & Co. of Toronto. The cenotaph stood by the sidewalk leading to the Brickburn School until the late 1960s when the new elementary school was built. It was then almost surrounded by the school. With the construction of a new park, the Legion took the opportunity to move the cenotaph to a more accessible location and it was rededicated on 14 September 2002.

This stele was constructed on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 48 and is dedicated to the veterans of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

This monument, designed by a local architect named Herbert Payton, was constructed by the town of Dauphin beginning in the summer of 1923. The sculpture, entitled "Miss Canada in Mourning" was sculpted by Signor Rumbollo from Italy. Originally erected in front of the local Canadian National Railway station, the monument was moved to Memorial Boulevard in 1964. It is dedicated to the local war dead from the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. The Dauphin Cenotaph was unveiled on June 19, 1924, in memory of "Our citizen soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice during the Great War". Sir James Aikens, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba attended the unveiling of this beautiful Memorial column, topped by a nine foot figure of Miss Canada. The Memorial was paid for by public inscription and was contracted to Guinn and Simpson of Portage La Prairie at a cost of five thousand and five hundred dollars. There are 82 names of men from Dauphin and District who fell in the First World War and 80 names of men who fell in the Second World War.

This memorial was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 87 (Lawrence) in honour of the local war dead.