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The stained glass windows were dedicated in 1921 to commemorate the fallen of the First World War. The congregation of MacNab Street Presbyterian Church erected the memorial, which was created by Robert McCausland Limited. There are three windows.

The inscription is meant to be read as the top line across all 3 windows, with the names of the fallen on the second line. It reads "To the Glory of God and in Memory of the members of this Congregation who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919."

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

The Captain Cornelius Park is named in honour of Captain John Richard Cornelius.

John Richard Cornelius was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in March 1884. As a young man he served with the 4^th Battlion, Royal Scots. He immigrated to Canada with his family and in October 1915, at the age of 31, he enlisted in the 58^th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. His Battalion set sail for Europe in November 1915 and after a few months of training in England, landed in France in February 1916. At the end of the war, Captain Cornelius joined the staff of the Hamilton Collegiate Institute in 1919. He retired from teaching in 1950 but continued to coach the school’s highly successful track and field team until 1961. During his four decade-long coaching tenure, Cornelius formed an astonishing number of Canadian Olympians for the 1924 and 1928 Olympics as well as the Canadian relay team that won the bronze medal at the 1932 Olympics. A world acclaimed coach, Cornelius died in 1964.

This black stone monument is dedicated to the memory of Sergeant Shawn Allen Eades, CD, member of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, and former student at Westwood Public School, who was killed in action on August 20, 2008 in the Zahri District of Afghanistan.

Excerpt from an article in the Hamilton Spectator, by Stacey Escott, 25 September, 2011:

"Fallen Hamilton soldier Shawn Allen Eades’ wife and two young daughters missed the connecting flight that would get them to his memorial ceremony last week (Friday 23 Sep 11).

The family lives in Edmonton and had to catch a plane from Winnipeg that would fly them to Hamilton. With just half an hour to get in and out of the airport, the plane left without them. Lisa pleaded with airport authorities, and after hearing her story, the pilot turned the plane around and came back for them. The people already on board clapped as Lisa and her daughters Breanna, 10, and Niya, 7, were seated.

They were joined by family and friends, soldiers, teachers, students and politicians as close to 200 people at Westwood Public School remembered the fallen soldier Friday afternoon. Eades was killed on Aug. 20, 2008, while on duty in Afghanistan. He was two weeks away from coming home after his third rotation.

The ceremony took place in the school gymnasium at Westwood where Shawn was a student from grades 3-6 in the ’80s. Students sat patiently as they waited to stand up and sing Canadian Heroes. After the stone was unveiled in the Westwood schoolyard, Breanna and Niya lit the lanterns as the rest of the family laid red roses in front of it."

This memorial is located on the site of the former Peace Memorial School which was closed in 2005 and eventually demolished. The huge portico of the school's entrance was saved as a Memorial Peace Arch. It stands as the main entrance to the 7 1/2 acre landscaped park. The sidewalks in the park are configured in the shape of the internationally recognized Peace Symbol very noticeable from the air.

The Peace Arch has a series of wide concrete steps to the promenade surrounding the monolithic structure. To one side there is a large plinth with two bronze plaques affixed. One commemorates the old school which once stood there and the other outlines its military history when it was used temporarily as a recovery hospital for wounded soldiers returning from France in 1918. It also pays tribute to the fallen and those that have served in all Canada's wars. The Arch is from an existing portico of huge dimensions, a rug brick and columned Gothic structure circa 1918.

The long Memorial Walk leading east from the Arch ends at a meditation circle which has a Dove of Peace engraved in granite. A place to sit and meditate. The park is blessed with over 140 trees of various types and the walkways at the Arch and along the Memorial Walk are well lit at night to deter vandals and provide a stunning view of the ornate Arch.  This memorial was dedicated October 20, 2008.

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This memorial was erected by CASE International Havester Company to honour employees of International Harvester Co. of Canada Limited who served in the First and Second World Wars. In 1997 a time capsule was found behind the two medallions flanking the main entrance to the 1911 Works Office. The medallions and time capsule were relocated to a cairn erected in front of the new Plant Office. A tribute to International Harvester employees who served in the two World Wars was also mounted on the cairn. In 1999, with the closing of the Hamilton Plant, the cairn was dismantled and rebuilt on this present, permanent site. The 1911 time capsule, materials and additions made in 1997, are sealed herein.

Corporal Darryl Ross was an Electrician from CFB North Bay who was killed in a vehicle accident in the Golan Heights on 3 March 1978 while on peacekeeping duties. Before Corporal Ross joined the Canadian Forces he was an Air Cadet with 150 Hamilton Tiger Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Cadets. When he died, cadets of the squadron raised the money for a trophy in his memory that is awarded annually to the junior cadet in the squadron with the highest academic achievement.