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1813
IN HONOUR OF
THE BRAVE MEN
WHO FOUGHT AND FELL
IN THE VICTORY OF
CRYSLER'S FARM
on the
11th NOVEMBER 1813.
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
BY THE
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT.
1895
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IN COMMEMORATION OF
THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE BATTLE OF CRYSLER'S FARM
THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED TO
THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN NATIONS
WHOSE COMMON MEMORIES OF
OLD UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO
NOT ONLY CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR SEPARATE
HERITAGES AND TRADITIONS
BUR FORM A BOND BETWEEN
TWO FRIENDLY PEOPLES
ERECTED BY
THE ONTARIO -ST. LAWRENCE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
JULY 1963
[plaque]
Here, on the farm of John Crysler, was fought one of the decisive battles
of the War of 1812. On 11 November 1813 Lieutenant-Colonel
Joseph Morrison, with 800 British and Canadian regulars, militia, and
Indians, engaged an American force of 4,000 under Brigadier-General
John Boyd. The open terrain was suited to the training of well-drilled
British regulars who, after two hours of heavy fighting, routed the
enemy. This victory ended a major American thrust at Montreal.
Ici fut livrée l'une des batailles décisives de la guerre de 1812. Le
lieutenant-colonel Joseph Morrison, à la tête de 800 hommes (réguliers
britanniques et canadiens, miliciens et Indiens) livrait combat, le 11
novembre 1813, aux 4 000 hommes du brigadier-général américain
John Boyd. Les réguliers britanniques, bien exercés au combat en rase
campagne, mirent les Américains en fuite après deux heures de rude
bataille. Cette victoire brisa la poussée importante de l'ennemi vers
Montréal.
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada.
Government of Canada - 1923 - Gouvernment du Canada
This monument is dedicated to the battle which took place on the banks of the St. Lawrence on November 11, 1813. The Battle of Crysler's Farm was a significant battle in the War of 1812 that halted the November 1813 invasion of Canada.
The monument was erected by the Dominion Government and was unveiled on September 25, 1895, in the presence of some 6,000 persons.
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IN FLANDERS FIELDS
(plaque)
ERECTED
BY THE CITIZENS OF CORNWALL AND SUBURBS
IN SACRED MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
1914-1918
(base/bas)
WORLD WAR I
1914 – 1918
WORLD WAR II
1939 – 1945
KOREA
1950 – 1953
(left wall/mur de gauche)
YPRES ST ELOI SOMME ANCRE SCARPE
FESTHUBERT – MOUNT SORREL
PASSCHENDALE – DROCOURT OUEANT
VALOUR REMEMBERED
(right wall/mur de droit)
HILL 70 AMIENS ARRAS CAMBRAI MONS
COURCELETTE – VIMY RIDGE
CANAL DU NORD – VALENCIENNES
SOUVENIRS DE VAILLANCE
[left side/côté gauche]
(plaque)
ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS
OF
CORNWALL CITY AND TOWNSHIP
IN
SACRED MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
1939 – 1945
(plaque)
ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS
OF CORNWALL
IN SACRED MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE KOREAN WAR
FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
1950 – 1953
CAMPEAU. MAURICE J. M.
GALLINGER, PAUL H.
STEER, DONALD H.
[right side/côté droit]
(plaque)
ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS
OF
CORNWALL CITY AND TOWNSHIP
IN
SACRED MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
1939 – 1945
(plaque)
ERECTED BY
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Br. 297
&
The Citizens Of Cornwall
IN MEMORY OF
The Brave Men & Women Who
Served With NATO &UN FORCES
And In AFGHANISTAN.
Dedicated November 11, 2011
ÉRIGÉ PAR
la filiale 297 de la Légion royale canadienne
et
les citoyens de Cornwall
À LA MÉMOIRE DES
hommes et femmes vaillants qui ont servi dans
les FORCES DE L’OTAN ET DU L’ONU
et en AFGHANISTAN
Dédié le 11 novembre 2011
The cenotaph in Legion Memorial Park, erected in 1923 by the citizens of Cornwall and suburbs, was originally dedicated to those lost in the Great War. It was designed by Emanuel Hahn, constructed in 1923 and unveiled June 5, 1925 by Baron Byng of Vimy.
Emanuel Hahn's statue design represents the sorrows caused by war. The bronze 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 at the base – 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.
After the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Legion debated constructing another memorial, but decided they already had a "very fine Memorial for our Comrades who fell in the First Great War". They decided instead, to build a Community Centre for this honour.
The cenotaph was later modified to include the Second World War and Korean War, as well as a plaque recognizing contributions made in peacekeeping and the Afghanistan theatre of operations. Presently it is used on November 11 for Remembrance Day ceremonies and also for the Battle of the Atlantic ceremonies.
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.
Wilfrid Ellis DURANT
Born/Né 20-01-1895
490942 Lt.
U of T Overseas Training Company,
Royal Flying Corps, 29 Sqn/Esc
Royal Air Force
09-03-1917, Pte./Sdt.
U of T Training Company
24-04-1917, Cadet in Royal Flying
Corps. Killed/tué Saint-Omer, France
02-07-1918, flying an/
pilote d'un S.E. 5a Scout
Age 23
Cimetière du souvenir de
Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery
The Morewood Cenotaph Committee honored their fallen on the 100th anniversary of the original unveiling of the cenotaph - July 6, 2021, by installing 21 mini-monuments - ten along each side - one for each of those who had given their lives, and one by itself at the back representing all who returned. A portrait of William Ellis Durant is etched into his memorial. He stood 5 foot, 5 inches, had brown hair and blue eyes. He had a small scar on his right index finger. His occupation before the war was School Teacher.
The day of his death he was leading his squadron over the Ypres front when he was attacked by two German planes which came down from above a cloud. He was shot through the head and fell near Battery Corner.
The 20 pillars representing individual soldiers are in alphabetic order. The 21st pillar sits in the shadow of the cenotaph and between the two rows.
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IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN HEROES
1914 - 1918
SGT. HAROLD B. AULT M.M. 3rd BN. AUG. 30, 1918
PTE. HAROLD C. SHAVER C.A.M.C. MAY 20, 1918
PTE. ERSEL I. HANES 38th BN. SEPT. 27, 1918
PT.E M.E. PRUNER 21st BN. NOV. 9, 1917
PTE. JAMES HART 21st BN. AUG. 31, 1917
PTE. S.E. McCONNELL 19th BN. SEPT. 18, 1916
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE
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OSNABRUCK TWP. AREA VETERANS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
ARMY
R.C.A.F.
KOREAN WAR
MILTON VIPOND
1939 1945
PTE. HARRY A. McINTOSH
S.D.&G. HIGHLANDERS SEPT. 5, 1944
PTE. LAWRENCE PRUNER
LINCOLN & WELLAND REG'T JAN. 26, 1945
PTE. BERTRAM R. SMITH
R.C.O.C. AUG. 22, 1944
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE
This memorial, a cenotaph and stele, is dedicated to the Veterans of the Township of Osnabruck who gave their lives in the First and Second World War, and the Korean War.
1914 1918
ERECTED TO
OUR HEROES
KILLED
IN THE GREAT WAR.
SGT. HAROLD ADAM MERKLEY
54TH BATT. C.E.F.
KILLED AT VIMY
JULY 19, 1918. AGE 22 YRS.
PTE. W.B.C. MOODIE
49TH BATT. C.E.F.
KILLED AT VIMY
APR 9, 1917. AGE 33 YRS.
PTE. RANSOM HOWARD HESS
PRINCESS PATRICIA LIGHT INFANTRY C.E.F.
KILLED AT BATTLE
OF PARVILLERS
AUG 13, 1918. AGE 17 YRS.
PTE. HENRY COUGHLER
28TH BATT. C.E.F.
DIED OF WOUNDS
IN HOSPITAL, FRANCE
NOV 1, 1918. AGE 33 YRS.
Commemoration efforts in Nation Valley began in late 1919. On December 13, a small ceremony was held at the home of Sergeant Merkley's parents and individual memorial tablets were presented to families of the fallen. In August 1920, both the Winchester Press and Chesterville Record reported that a harvest dinner would be held to raise money for the Soldiers' Memorial Fund.
By February 1922, progress was being made on the Nation Valley Cenotaph; the Record reported that a group of men went to Winchester to take care of business related to the project. It is likely that they went to Stubbs & Gibson's monument business, which was commissioned to create the memorial. Made of black and grey Egyptian granite, the cenotaph stands over six feet tall. Small maple leaves adorn the corners of each side, and a wreath of maple leaves is displayed on the cap of the stone. The lettering was completed by Mr. Gibbs of Winchester.
On the morning of August 23, hundreds of people gathered on the lawn of the Nation Valley Public School at 12725 River Road to witness the unveiling of the cenotaph. The school was a meaningful site for the memorial, as all four soldiers were educated there. The ceremony was performed by Reverend William Brown, the Methodist minister from Chesterville.
In the fall of 2014, the North Dundas Township Council discovered that the land where the monument was located was privately owned by the Munro family. A few years after the school closed in 1966, the school board sold the land to them. To ensure that the public would always have access to the cenotaph, the Munro family worked with the Township and the Chesterville Legion to have it moved to Veterans Memorial Park on Queen Street East, where Chesterville's own war memorial was (and still is) located.
Maurice Ogden CHENEY
Born/Né 05-01-1894
177937 Pte./Sdt.
87 BN. Canadian Grenadier Guard/
Gardes grendadiers canadiens, 1 Bn. RCR
Killed/tué Vimy 03-05-1917
Age 23
No known grave/
Pas de sépulture connue
Canadian National Vimy Memorial/
Mémorial national du Canada à Vimy
The Morewood Cenotaph Committee honored their fallen on the 100th anniversary of the original unveiling of the cenotaph - July 6, 2021, by installing 21 mini-monuments - ten along each side - one for each of those who had given their lives, and one by itself at the back representing all who returned. A portrait of Maurice Ogden Cheney is etched into his memorial. He had black hair, brown eyes and was 5 foot 7 inches. His occupation prior to the war was a farmer.
Maurice embarked on 23 April 1916, arrived in England 5 May aboard the S.S. Empress of Britain. He was taken on strength in France by the 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry, 18/19 June 1916, had difficulty with synovitis of the left knee before returning to the field. He suffered a shrapnel wound to the middle finger of his left hand on 23 September, but was released the same day. Maurice had a slight injury to his back on 11 April 1917 and rejoined the first Battalion on 27 April. He was reported as missing in action on 3 May 1917 and subsequently modified to killed in action.
The 20 pillars representing individual soldiers are in alphabetic order. The 21st pillar sits in the shadow of the cenotaph and between the two rows.
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"WE WILL REMEMBER"
"NOUS NOUS SOUVIENDRONS"
IN MEMORY OF
WORLD WAR 1 SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
PTE. H. BLACKWOOD
PTE. F.C. CHADWICK
LT. D.M. CHRISTIE
SGT. H.F. CHRISTIE
PTE. G. COKER
PTE. G.D. DREW
PTE. T.D. ELLIS
SGT. A.L. FOULDS
PTE. C.A. GRANT
CPL. W. GUNN
CPL. L.J. JACQUES
CAPT. A.R. MCGREGOR
PRT. P.R. MCLAREN
L/CPL. W. MCMARTIN
PTE. D.J. MCNAUGHTON
CPL. H.W. MURRAY
PTE. C.J. ROSS
PTE. S. SMITH
PTE. A.G. URQUHART
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IN MEMORY OF
SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
WHILE ON DUTY
SGT. D.G. BUCHAN
[left side/côté gauche]
IN MEMORY OF
WORLD WAR 2 SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
PTE. J. LAFAVE
SGT. H.A. MCLENNAN
TPR. D.J. MCMARTIN
GNR. M.O. MCPHADDEN
PTE. C.M. PARENT
CPL. A.K. ROSS
The Martintown Cenotaph is dedicated to the citizens of Martintown and surrounding area who gave their lives serving with the Canadian Armed Forces.
In 2019, the community was canvassed by letter and gave unanimous approval for a cenotaph. A team was selected and the first meeting of the Martintown Project Team was held on 2 March 2020. Following consultations and an extensive community fundraising effort, a plan was established for the construction of a field stone cenotaph.
Its concrete slab and electrical work were completed in October 2020 and masonry in the spring of 2021. Stonemason John Steven of Martintown, used stones from the area, specifically the Campbell Murray farm, but many stones were supplied by the community. The wheelchair-accessible stone walkway was completed by Mike Viau and his crew. The cenotaph itself stands eight feet high. November 11, 2021, marked the first Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph.
(Royal Canadian Legion crest/écusson de la Légion royale canadienne)
BRANCH 538
WILLIAMSBURG
WE
WILL
REMEMBER
THEM
This memorial is dedicated to those who died in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. It was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 538 of Williamsburg at 4301 County Road 31. The cenotaph was refurbished and moved to its current location. It was rededicated on October 29, 2023.
The white stone cairn has a maple leaf on top, a small plaque on the front and is flanked by two flag poles, flying the Canadian flag and the Union Jack.
[stone at entrance/dalle en pierre à l'entrée du parc]
CORNWALL BRANCH 297
LEGION MEMORIAL PARK
Legion Memorial Park was named in 1923 by the City of Cornwall, dedicated in sacred memory to those who gave their lives in service to their country.
The Cornwall Cenotaph in Legion Memorial Park was erected in 1923. A fountain adorns the grounds in front of the memorial, added as a Centennial project in 1967. There are also a pair of cannons and well landscaped gardens on the park grounds.
THE GLENGARRY FENCIBLES
The regiment of Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles was
raised in 1811-12 largely from among the Highland settlers of
this region, many of whom had served previously in Europe
with the Glengarry (British Highland) Fencibles. The
Canadian corps was recruited through the efforts of Major
George Richard John Macdonell ("Red George") assisted by
the Rev. Alexander Macdonell (later Upper Canada's first
Roman Catholic Bishop) who served as its chaplain. The
regiment was taken on the regular British army establishment
in 1812, and disbanded at Kingston in 1816. Detachments of
the Fencibles distinguished themselves in many hard fought
engagements including: Salmon River, 1812; Ogdensburg, 1813;
Lundy's Lane, Fort Erie, and Mackinac, 1814.
Erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.
This memorial was erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. The plaque is dedicated to the regiment of Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles raised in 1811-12, largely from among the Highland settlers of this region.
