Newfoundland & Labrador

The Caribou Monument, a gift from Major Howe Green, was unveiled on 1 July 1928 by His Worship the Mayor, Honourable Tasker Cook, in the presence of a large crowd. The ceremony was organized by the Bowring Park Committee.

Major Green served in the First World War with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The caribou is not a memorial to their glorious dead, as the monument on King's Beach in St. John’s pays tribute to those who died. The Caribou Monument is an everlasting tribute to the regiment’s esprit de corps and loyal comradeship when its members so gallantly and honorably wore the regimental badge. It is also an expression of the hope of that spirit of comradeship then formed shall remain unto the last.

The caribou (the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment) is a replica of the original erected at Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and is situated on a ledge. The statue is estimated to weigh approximately 1,700 pounds. It is surrounded by trees, with a brook to the left. The site was selected by landscape architect RBK Cochius, who supervised the monument's installation, and is almost identical to the one at Beaumont-Hamel. The caribou statue was created by Captain Basil Gotto, a famous sculptor who was commissioned during the war to create a piece of a ‘fighting soldier’.

Thomas Nangle, the Regimental Padre, recommended memorials to mark each of the Regiment's main battles: Gallipoli, Beaumont-Hamel, Gueudecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Masnières and Courtrai. Six caribous stand watch over the battlefields in Europe where so many of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment fell. This was the sixth caribou, first in Canada, installed and stands watch with its defiant gaze forever fixed towards its former foe.

Directly across from The Caribou Monument are the Beaumont Hamel Memorial Plaque Replicas.

The World War II Gunners Memorial, located in Bowring Park, was erected in memory of all gunners in the Second World War.

This memorial is dedicated to those from the Community of Petty Harbour/Maddox Cove who served in all Wars. It was erected by the War Memorial Committee.

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 33, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars. It is made of grey granite, standing some 10 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 12 inches thick.

The Star of the Sea Parish Hall was erected in 1949 as a tribute to those from the area who served in the Second World War. A brick monument with a marble plaque and cross is located outside the hall.

Dedicated on 17 September 1995, this memorial was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 33, and is dedicated to the local veterans of the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War and peacekeeping duties. The Memorial is erected on the former Legion Building grounds. The former legion was destroyed by a fire in 1979. A new Legion was later re-built at another location in Placentia.

The Placentia First World War Memorial was unveiled on June 3, 1920, in memory of the young men from the Parish who lost their lives in the First World War (1914-1918). It was the first Monument erected in Newfoundland to honour the men who served in the First World War. The pedestal is fashioned from Rutland Italian Marble in which several inscriptions are carved, including the names of the 33 men from the Placentia Parish who died in World War I. On the pedestal stands a life size statue of the Saviour carved from Carrara marble. The Monument weighs over 12 tonnes.

Unveiled by the city of Mount Pearl and Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 36 on 29 October 1994, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

On February 24, 1920, the question of a suitable war memorial for Bell Island was raised in a meeting of the Great War Veterans Association at the Star Hall and a fundraising campaign was started to raise money for club rooms for Veterans. Instead of club rooms, a monument was erected and unveiled on June 15, 1921.

In September 1948, the Great War Veterans Association began construction of their Memorial Building. The club rooms were designed to form a memorial to the memory of those gallant men from the Iron Isle who paid the supreme sacrifice in the Second World War.

A resolution to merge with the Canadian Legion was passed unanimously on October 10, 1949, by the Dominion Conference of the Great War Veterans Association and on July 7, 1951, the Canadian Legion Memorial Building opened. A fire destroyed the Memorial Building on March 8, 1958. The official opening of the new Legion Memorial Building was on November 10, 1958. 

Nova Scotia-based Heritage Memorials constructed a tomb of an unknown soldier for the Newfoundland National War Memorial in St. John's. The 3,600-kilogram sarcophagus portion of the tomb was installed at the base of the war memorial on April 9, 2024. The remains of an unknown Newfoundland soldier who died in the First World War were repatriated from a battlefield in northern France and placed inside the tomb.

The vault, carved from black granite that was mined from a Quebec quarry, is inscribed with the words "Known Unto God" in English and French. A forget-me-not flower — a symbol of remembrance for the Newfoundland Regiment — is also carved into the granite. The province's coat-of-arms is carved into the front of the tomb.

The cover is carved from Labrador granite called "Blue Eyes" and weighs roughly 1,100 kilograms.