New Brunswick

73-year-old Casavant Pipe organ serves as unique war memorial to fallen Saint John Vocational School students. Alumni of the Saint John Vocational School, now Harbour View High School, commissioned the organ from the legendary Quebec-based organ builder Casavant Frères in the fall of 1943. 

It was installed and dedicated in a ceremony on March 18, 1944, to honour the students who had already enlisted and died in the war. Over the course of the Second World War, 834 students enlisted, including 86 young women. Fifty-three of them died. Simon Couture, vice-president of Casavant Frères, says the organ cost $4200 in 1943, a good deal a the time. The organ was not new actually, it was repurposed. This instrument was installed first in 1939 in a private home north of Montreal and we had to take the organ back after a few years because the client couldn't make the payments. The plaque contains the second last stanza of a poem written anonymously in 1944 to honour the fallen students of Saint John Vocational.

The RCAF Memorial Book lists the names of all those who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is on display at Trinity Anglican Church, and a page is turned daily. It was unveiled by parishioners of Trinity Anglican Church, sometime after World War II.

This memorial plaque is dedicated to Parishioners of Trinity Anglican Church who died serving Canada during World War I.

This memorial is dedicated to four New Brunswick units, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, The Royal Canadian Air Force, and the Merchant Marine; parishioners of Trinity Anglican Church, who died serving Canada during World War I & II.

In the Chancel, are the laid up colours of four New Brunswick units - King's and Regimental. They are the 62nd Regiment, Saint John Fusiliers, the 115th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, the 104th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force.

In the Nave are found flags and ensigns of the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, The Royal Canadian Air Force, and the Merchant Marine - which were in use at the time of the Second World War.

Riverview Memorial Park has a deep connection with Margaret Baizley and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, thanks to Baizley’s leadership and efforts in raising funds for the construction of the South African War Monument. Established in 1902, Riverview Memorial Park stands as a testament to the determination of Mrs. Baizley and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

The park is a tribute to the valiant servicemen who fought in the South African War, specifically the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment recruited from New Brunswick. G Company comprised many ex-members of the renowned 62nd Saint John Fusiliers and earned recognition for their bravery during the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900, which led to the surrender of Pieter Cronje’s forces. Four men from Saint John lost their lives during the South African War, with three of them dying on the day of Cronje’s surrender on February 27, 1900. The local South African War Veterans used to gather at Riverview Memorial Park on Paardeberg Day, reenacting the battle and charging entrenched African forces. Colonel Reginald Fendick revived this ceremony on February 27, 1999, after two decades of absence.

There were several memorials placed in the park, the South African War Monument, a drinking fountain, two smooth-bore cannons and a captured First World War German gun (all three melted down in 1942 for the Second World War effort). Between 1900 and 1925 there were 11 memorial trees planted in memory of South African War soldiers, as well as park organizers and supporters. In 2017, three trees were planted as memorials to other Veterans. 

The Royal Canadian Regiment, 2nd Battalion at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, perpetuates the unit which played a decisive role in the victory at Paardeberg. For decades the New Brunswick Boer War Veterans Association held their annual remembrance ceremony in the park. In 2015, at the 115th anniversary of this battle, the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment held a remembrance ceremony in the Park. 

This memorial is dedicated to members of RCAF. City and County of Saint John who gave their all that we may live. It was erected by (Saint John) Wing, Royal Canadian Air Force Association.

This memorial is dedicated to those who fought in the wars of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The cross was unveiled in 1959.

In 1922, the Municipal Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire in Saint John held a meeting to organize a memorial to honour the city’s war dead. The War Memorial Committee held a design competition and chose a design by Canadian sculptor, Alfred Howell. It symbolizes the triumph of victory through sacrifice with a winged bronze figure holding a flag of victory and a cross. She stands on a globe, suggesting the universal victory for which men died. A statue below, depicts a figure mourning, with her hands resting on a sword and at its feet, lies a soldier’s helmet with a spray of laurel leaves on it. 

The War Memorial Committee wanted to put the monument at the head of King Street, which was in the center of town and close to many prominent buildings and institutions. However, in 1885 the local branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union had installed a water fountain at the head of King Street in memory of the Loyalist women who had settled in the city. Some prominent Saint John citizens, including the mayor, thought that removing the fountain would be erasing that sacred memory. The majority of Saint John citizens wanted it moved and there wasn’t a single letter to the editor in favour of keeping the fountain. In the end, the War Memorial Committee put aside the debate and agreed to put the memorial a few feet to one side of the fountain in order to unveil the memorial in a timely fashion.

The lower mourning statue was covered in a massive Union Jack which General A.H. Macdonell removed on June 10, 1925, with the words, "I now reverently unveil this War Memorial to the glory of those citizens of Saint John who served in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, or as nursing sisters, who lost their lives in the Great War." General Macdonell commanded the 5th Infantry Brigade of which the local regiment, the 26th New Brunswick Battalion was part.

Canon Lawrence prefaced his dedicatory prayer by saying that Saint John is a good place to live in, thanks to the sacrifices of the men whom this memorial remembered. "Be it ours," he said, "to make Saint John what they would like it to be." The War Memorial was erected for $20,000 in perpetual memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice during the Great War. On June 24, 1925, the City of Saint John formally took over the care and maintenance of the memorial. 

The dates of the Second World War, Korean War, and Afghanistan were added to the memorial after those conflicts.

Alfred Howell was born in 1889 in Oldbury, England and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. In Canada, he taught at the Toronto Central Technical School. Following the First World War, he was awarded a contract to create bronze monuments throughout Canada to commemorate the sacrifices of Canadian soldiers. His commissions include: Guelph War Memorial, Garden of the Unforgotten, Triumph of Right over the God of War, William Hamilton Merritt Memorial and Central Technical School Memorial.

This memorial is located at the departure location of the 26th "New Brunswick" Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. It was erected by the 26th Battalion Overseas Association and Saint John Port Authority.

The 26th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force was  the only infantry battalion raised in New Brunswick that saw action in the First World War. It departed Saint John on 13 June 1915 and returned on the SS Olympic on 16 May 1919. The battalion had a total strength of 5,719, suffered 918 dead, 2,977 non-fatal casualties, and won 334 honours and awards.

The statue on the South African War Monument was added in two phases. The stone bottom was added in 1902, but a decision was not made on the form of the top until almost two years later when enough funding was secured through Margaret Baizley and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

A bronze statue of a soldier in uniform stands at ease on a stone base, attired in the slouch hat, cross belts of ammunition, a pistol on his belt and in his right hand a Lee-Enfield rifle. The rifle was stolen by vandals in the late 1990s, but it was restored by the 26^th (Overseas) Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force Regimental Association in May 2002.