Veterans Memorial Lodge
Municipality/Province: Victoria, BC
Memorial number: 59032-049
Type: Building
Address: 4579 Chatterton Way
Location: Broadmead Care
GPS coordinates: Lat: 48.4968945 Long: -123.3800756
Submitted by: Victoria Edwards. Broadmead Care.
Veterans Affairs Canada and the BC Ministry of Health partnered to provide health services to Veterans in long term care in 1974. The Veterans Memorial Pavilion was transferred to the Provincial Government. In June of 1992 the Tillicum and Veterans Care Society was named to reflect federal funding for the new care home, to be called the Lodge at Broadmead. The Lodge opened in April of 1995 and replaced beds closed at Veterans Memorial Pavilion.
In 2015, Her Honour, the Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, together with Rear-Admiral Gilles Couturier, unveiled a plaque honouring Canada's Veterans. The Lodge was officially renamed Veterans Memorial Lodge at Broadmead, known informally as Veterans Memorial Lodge.
The Totem Pole and Veterans' Chapel (which includes five military stained glass windows and a Book of Remembrance) are also located at Veterans Memorial Lodge.
Inscription found on memorial
[Royal Oak Drive and Chatterton Way signs/panneaux des rue Royal Oak et chemin Chatterton]
Broadmead Care
Where Love, Life and Living Matter
Veterans Memorial Lodge
[plaque]
DEDICATED TO CANADA'S VETERANS
ESPECIALLY TO THOSE
CARED FOR AT THE LODGE
November 2015
Street view
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