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The Richmond Legion Mural

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  • The Richmond Legion Mural
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    The Richmond Legion Mural

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • List of images on the We Stand on Guard section.

    List of images on the We Stand on Guard section.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme trenches.

    Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme trenches.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Western Front map.

    Western Front map.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Canadian nurses and wounded soldier.

    Canadian nurses and wounded soldier.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Hurricanes and Spitfires.

    Hurricanes and Spitfires.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Bedford Basin

    Bedford Basin

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Map of D-Day Canadian movements.

    Map of D-Day Canadian movements.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Soldiers and artillery.

    Soldiers and artillery.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Merchant Marine lumber ship.

    Merchant Marine lumber ship.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Korean War soldiers.

    Korean War soldiers.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • United Nations Peacekeepers, Egypt 1967.

    United Nations Peacekeepers, Egypt 1967.

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • North American Aerospace Defense Command

    North American Aerospace Defense Command

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

  • Agira Canadian War Cemetery

    Agira Canadian War Cemetery

    Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

Municipality/Province: Richmond, ON

Memorial number: 35050-013

Type: Mural

Address: 6430 Ottawa Street West

Location: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 625

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.1757302   Long: -75.8418621

Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

The Richmond Legion Mural was designed by Legion member Becky Marr-Johnson. It took hundreds of hours and over one year to complete. The mural is divided into two sections - the left section depicts the history of Richmond and Canada; in the center of the mural is a Canadian Maple leaf; and the right section depicts Canadians in service from the First World War to 1967.

Inscription found on memorial

[mural/murale]

O CANADA

WE STAND ON GUARD
FOR THEE

[left section of mural/section de gauche de la murale]

O CANADA
(RICHMOND STYLE)

1. WILSON DAIRY FARM - RICHMOND ROAD
2. TRILLIUMS - ONTARIO PROVINCIAL FLOWER
3. PEACE TOWER - OTTAWA, ONT.
4. JOCK RIVER - AT MCBEAN ST. BRIDGE
5. CANADA GEESE
6. TULIPS
7. RICHMOND CENOTAPH
8. ST. JOHNS ANGLICAN CHURCH - BUILT 1859
9. MCBEAN STREET - 1977
10. RICHMOND FAIR - FOUNDED 1844

"THE RICHMOND LEGION MURAL"

CONCEPT, DESIGN AND EXECUTION BY
BECKY MARR-JOHNSON OF NORTH GOWER, ONT.
PAINTED JULY 1996 TO SEPT., 1977

THANKS TO

THE WALTER REID ESTATE
GOULBOURN MIDDLE SCHOOL
RICHMOND LEGION BRANCH 625 -
MEMBERS, LADIES AUXILIARY, AND
CLUB 55
THE CANADAIN WAR MUSEUM
MICHAEL CALNAN -
SWORDS & PLOUSHARES MUSEUM
BOB TRACY - DIRECTOR -
AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION

[right section of mural/section de droite de la murale]

WE STAND ON GUARD
(CANADIANS IN SERVICE)

WORLD WAR 1 - 1914-1918
1. TRENCHES - BATTLES OF THE SOMME
2. MAP - THE WESTERN FRONT
3. CANADIAN NURSES AND WOUNDED

WORLD WAR II - 1939-1945
4. HURRICANES AND SPITFIRES (AIR FORCE)
5. BEDFORD BASIN - HALIFAX, N.S. (NAVY)
6. MAP - "D" DAY - CANADIAN MOVEMENTS
7. ARTILLERY (ARMY)
8. LUMBER SHIP (MERCHANT MARINE)

9. KOREAN CONFLICT - 1950-1953
10. U.N. PEACEKEEPING - EGYPT - 1967
CANADIANS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OVER 30 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS
11. NORAD HEADQUARTERS - NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE
COMMAND - COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (SURVEILLANCE)
12. CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY - AGIRA, SICILY
109,980 CANADIANS WHO DIED IN WWI & WWII ARE
COMMEMORATED IN SUCH CEMETERIES IN 74 COUNTRIES
13. CREST - RICHMOND LEGION BRANCH 625
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
TO ALL WHO SERVE

RICHMOND
BRANCH
625

1973    1997

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