Canadian Pacific Railway World Wars Memorial

The Canadian Pacific Railway Great War Tablet in Weston Shops was dedicated on April 28, 1922. The ceremony was led by Assistant Superintendent (Motive Power) A. Sturrock, with long-serving and retired employee S.J. Pentland unveiling the monument, Alderman (Major) Robert James Shore gave the formal address, and Reverend Robert Weston Ridgeway provided the dedication. 

Following the Second World War, a small crest was added to the tablet, now honouring employees who served in either conflict. By the early 1950s, the war memorial was next to the Weston Yard main gate at McPhillips Street and Jarvis Avenue. An Honour Roll was created for the over 400 local employees who served during the Second World War, with both co-located at the main gate for many years and later moved into the yard.

Between 2018 and 2020, the tablet was relocated to the employee parking area and mounted on a new stone base, with the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 crest immediately below, and set above an updated Second World War Honour Roll.

To honour those who served and gave their lives during the Great War, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) erected a series of bronze memorial tablets in over twenty select locations along their railway system and offices in Canada, United States, England and China. The tablet depicts Britannia, the national personification of Britain, as a helmeted female warrior with a lion to her right and a shield at her feet, HMS Lion (Admiral Beatty's flagship during the Battle of Jutland) with airplanes above and a tank in front, Canadian Pacific Steamship RMS Empress of Russia (used during the war as an armed merchant cruiser and transport ship), Canadian troops, and a CPR locomotive in a nod to all those who travelled by train across Canada before heading overseas. The plaque was designed by Archibald Pearce, Chief Engineer's Department, Montreal, with its model and casting by the Bromsgrove Guild at Worcester, England.

All tablets were unveiled simultaneously on the same date along with three identical Winged Victory memorials in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.

THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THOSE IN THE SERVICE
OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY WHO
AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT
WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDSHIP, FACED DANGER
AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF SIGHT OF MEN BY THE
PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE. GIVING UP THEIR
OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT
THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.

1914  YPRES  FESTUBERT  THE SOMME  VIMY  HILL 70  1918
PASSCHENDAELE  AMIENS  CAMBRAI  DROCOURT QUEANT  MONS

Navy Division
Alexander A.J.
Alexander D.
Armstrong F.J.
Astbury W.E.
Astbury W.
Bain E.
Bain G.A.
Bale W.L.
Beakley G.A.
Beattie J.A.
Beerling L.D.
Beggs R.H.
Bellavie J.H.
Benger A.C.
Berg L.H.
Berry R.G.
Biggar B.C.
Biggar M.C.
Birch L.R.
Llahuta T.N.
Booth H.
Bourbonniere H.E.J.
Bradshaw B.J.
Brady E.T.
Bryan F.W.
Buckles W.
Burdus J.M.
Burges D.G.
Burns G.
Burns H.F.
Burrows A.F.
Cannell D.R.
Cannell R.F.
Cannon H.J.
Chadburn G.W.
Clarke W.G.
Cochrane D.S.
Colburn M.
Coley H.W.
Cook L.N.
Cooper T.J.
Corley J.G.
Craig W.J.
Crothers C.
Crothers T. SR.
Crothers T. JR.
Crothers W.
Cunnian T.T.
Cunningam H.W.
Dann F.G.
Davis H.W.J.
Decoster J.A.
Delbridge W.J. SR
Delbridge W.J. JR
Dickens J.
Dublas W.I.
Dryden E.L.
Dunlop J. SR
Dunlop J. JR
Eagle F.T.
Fedoruk M.
Ferguson A.R.
Fual L.J.
Folkes J.W.
Fraser S.R.
Gallagher W.
Galton H.
Garvin W.J.
Gibbons K.J.
Gloag W.M.
Goodman L.
Granath J.A.
Grant C.
Gratto L.J.
Hammond R.E.
Hanna D.
Hardy G.
Harmon C.G.
Harper R.T.C.
Harper S.
Heaney W.C.
Hellofs V.W.
Hems W.
Henrickson G.
Hogsden A.E.
Holland W.
Hopps E.
Hornby A.G.E.
Howard R.V.
Huggins E.A.
Hughes E.D.
Hughesman H.
Hutchison J.H.
Ings F.P.
Iwanicki J.A.
Jaworski T.
Johnson B.R.
Johnston J.
Jolly B.B.
Jones E.G.
Joyce S.
Kearney F.J.
Kennedy R.J.
Kirk R.J.
Kostyra A.
Kostyra A.B.
Kowalski W.S.
Kruk A.
Landkamer R.W.
Lang C.
Lebeau C.
Lichfield L.
Lutz A.W.
Lynch J.
Macbeath D.G.
Mackay W.W.
Madden P.G.
Mandrick D.
Manning R.W.
Marchant A.
Marlow H.
McBride W.S.
McClements G.T.
McCreedy R.W.
McDonnell J.H.
McDowell W.
McGregor M.N.
McIsaac J.R.W.
McLachlan R.L.
McMillan D.W.
McNeil J.
Miller J.
Mitchell S.C.
Montgomery E.
Moore A.W.
Moss C.J.
Moss J.L.
Motz E.A.
Muse A.M.
Nicholson H.
Nicholson W.M.
Nixon J.R.W.
Noseworthy C.F.
Odger W.J.
Ogilvie D.K.
Palmer J.
Patterson G.W.
Patterson J.R.H.
Pattie M.
Payne E.T.
Peters F.W.
Phillips I.C.*
Pike D.J.
Pinkos J.
Povey L.E.
Price C.E.
Pritchard C.A.
Prudent L.P.
Purser F.
Racham L.H.
Ratcliffe E.
Ritchie T.M.
Robertson D.
Robinson A.J.
Robinson J.C.
Robinson J.D.
Robson G.G.
Rogers C.R.
Rombough W.O.
Rose J.F.W.
Rushworth A.R.
Russel W.A.
Sandiford D.
Schade C.
Scoville D.R.
Seaberg W.E.
Serafin J.F.
Sharples W.
Shaw E.A.
Shaw G.
Shields W.
Shute W.R.
Silver S.S.
Sinclair J.B.
Sjoblom H.I.E.
Slater A.
Slidders J.D.
Smith A.W.
Smith E.H.
Smith H.J.
Smyth D.D.
Stein E.A.
Sunderland J.H.
Sunderland R.J.
Swystun W.
Szydlowski S.J.
Taylor K.P.
Thomson S.R.
Thompson T.A.
Toolis E.
Treller H.
Turner R.P.
Tyler H.W.
Van Ryssel O.R.
Vickers W.H.
Viney R.
Wade R.J.
Wainwright F.
Wallin H.H.
Webb C.
Wells G.
Wharrie J.
Wheeler R.D.
Wilford S.
Williams W.
Willis N.
Windgrove G.P.
Winogradoff N.
Wood W.
Woodfield A.
Wozniak M.
Zloty S.

Army Division
Aikens D.W.
Allan J. *
Allan T.L.
Allen J.C.
Armstrong A.
Arnold J.F.
Ashton R.G.
Bain T.I.
Bannister W.
Bannister WM
Barchuk F.
Beach R.N.H.
Benger H.J.
Bennett J.
Benzelcok M.
Bertulli E.
Bilinski J.
Blundell G.
Bodnar M.
Borashynski E.
Boxer N.
Boyarski J.
Boyd A.E.
Brenko W.
Britton C.
Brokker F.K.
Brown J.
Bryan F.
Brycha J.
Bundzelak P.
Cachal A.
Call P.
Campbell C.
Cant R.
Carpenter G.
Chambers W.H.
Chivers F.W.
Chmil S.
Chornenki W.
Christopherson E.
Chwailboga O.
Ciechewicz A.
Clark D.G.
Clark F.
Clark G.W.
Cooke H. *
Cooper R.H.
Corrigan F.K.
Cunningham K.
Curtis G.E.A.
Czurowski F.
Delbridge T.H.
Dickson E.
Diuk E.J.
Doroz S.
Drennar G.
Drystek M.
Dubesky T.
Duce H.T.
Duff H.A.
Duncan G.
Dunsford G.R.
Durand W.A.
Dwizona W.
Dyck W.
Enman G.H.
Everard J.R.
Everard W.M.
Fardoe W.F.
Fasco A.G.
Fawcet D.V.
Fellows J.H.
Fenton G.
Ferril H.
Filozof M.
Francey J.
Frickier S.
Fudge M.H.
Gall J.A.
Gates E.
Gates F.R.
Gracel N.
Gray W.T.
Gregory J.
Gregory N.
Haas A.
Harrison R.
Harrop H.
Harrow J.
Hayden S.
Henlook M.
Hipgrave A.V.
Hodgert J.
Hossak C.H.
Hreckory P.
Hughesman R.
Hummerston J.
Hutchinson S.
Johnston J.C.
Jowett D.
Kamins W.
Kappy N.
Kelly C.E.
Kennedy R.
Kinzel H.
Klisko A.
Klisko J.A.
Klook P.
Knight F.L.
Kondrysyn S.
Kopachynsky T.E.
Kosky M.
Koswin S.
Koszowski M.
Kowal F.
Koziarski K.
Krempin J.F.
Kruk T.
Krywochyza T.
Kuc A.
Kunicky A.
Kusner J.M.
Lacomy S.
Lakowitch M.
Lamb A.S.
Law A.
Law G.
Leclair W.J.
Lenoski A.J.
Lewer E.G.
Lisoweski T.
Loholt K.
Lovallo C.
Lovallo D.
Luchock J.
Lons R.A.
Magnusson E.A.
Markiewich M.B.
Marquardson A.
Matwichuk J.
Masik E.W.
Masik N.
Masters T.
Matewush F.T.
Mazepa J.
Mazepa R.
McAllister J.G.
McBurney J.
McCammon J.
McClements S.
McDougall E. (CWAC)
McFarlane J.
McGhee H.
McKenna O.E.
McOlarsen T.
McClay S.B.
McMillian P.W.E.
McNamara F.
McNaughton T.
Miller J.
Mitchell R.I.
Monteith W.L.
Moody B.
Morris J.P.
Mosiuk M.
Muir F.B.
Muir J.A.
Munt E.
Muzik M.A.
Nahernick M.
Nasechuk S.
Novak E.
Novak J.
O'Connell M.T.
Odger F.G.
Olchowecki W.
Owen H.
Packowich P.
Page J.R.
Palmer R.C.
Pfeifer R.
Piche J.
Piercy A.K.
Pinder H.
Pinkos C.C.
Plant G.
Pokrywka T.
Povey A.E.
Proberts C.
Ptashnik J.
Rank R.
Reay L.L.
Reid A.P.
Robertson C.S.
Roubble A.
Scalena J.
Schlamp W.F.
Seepish F.
Seliski J.A.
Sikomas J.
Simpson J.
Simpson R.C.
Simpson S.W.
Sims D.J.
Sinclair J.P.
Smart F.
Smerek J.S.
Smith E.J.
Smith G.T.
Smith G.W.
Smith R.H.
Stakowich J.
Stanowski W.
Starosilec M.
Starosilec W.
Stephens V.O.A.
Stokes E.
Sumner J.
Sutton B.
Suzanski N.
Szechoski C.
Thomas C.W.
Tilley J.
Tottle D.H.C.
Towarnicki W.
Tojan H.
Trylenski M.
Turner R.A.
Turner R.E.
Uhryn W.
Vince H.C.
Wachniuk O.
Walker R.
Weir J.C.
Weiss J.
Welychanko T.
Werbin F.
Wheaton D.W.
Whitledge E.G.
Wilford A.J.
Williams R.W.
Williamson N.S.
Wilson H.G.
Worsley N.L.
Yanishko J.
Yanishko W. *
Young H.N.
Zacharkow J.
Zajac P.
Zluchowsky B.
Zub W.
Zurba W.

Air Force Division
Algeo T.W.
Armstrong S.W.
Ballendine E.
Bamford S.W.
Barnes R.H.
Barnes S.F.
Baron H.W.
Belan J.
Bell M.
Bending S.A.
Booth R.A.
Bowes D.
Bowyer K.G.
Brown C.W.
Bown E.O.
Brown F.G.
Buchan W.M.
Buck C.D.
Bunting J.H.
Burch H.H.
Burton D.R.
Butterworth A.
Cady P.R.
Cameron J.E.
Cameron W.P.
Cannell A.F.
Carter E.P.
Cheropita W. *
Cohens S.
Comfort L.H.
Cook W.
Dingwall T.G.
Dobko J.P.
Doer W.H.
Doyle J.E.
Drysdale J.L. *
Edgerton G.F.
Elidoros T.
Emmert L.
Esselmont W.
Faires H.R.
Fedoroski B.E.
Fisher R.G.
Fox H.P.
Frosk J.
Fudge R.A.
Goff W.V.B.
Grimwood F.J.
Hall D.K.
Hall J.
Hand G
Handley J.A.
Harper J.
Harper T.J.
Heath J.C.
Henderson? I.L.
Houston H.A.
Howie J.C.G.
Hunter A.C.
Hutchison D.K.
Ings K.A.
Ispas W.
Jameson L.
Johnson A.J.
Hones T.J.
Joyce L.C.
Knowles H.J.
Ladd A.C.
Lathan W.
Leitch C.H.
Lindsay R.
Lingwood J.
Lepsky M.
Lobdell N.E.
Lowe V.W.
Lutz J.
Maines L.M.
Maw A.D. *
McCallum F.P.
McCance C.W.
McCreedy J.A.
McDonald A.J.
McDonald F.W.
McGregor G.N.
McGregor J.D.M.
McIntosh J.
McLachlan M.
McLaren R.C.
Miller R.
Mills B.W.
Missler R.J.B.
Morris I.W.
Murray W.J.
Nelson S.F.
Niven W.C.
Osman J.J.
Parbery A.
Parbery S.
Peters D.A.
Pickering J.H.
Pozerniuk P.R.
Prochera W.
Quickenden H.G.
Rawluk P.P.
Raynor W.
Reed A.C.
Rees W.G.
Ritchie R.W. *
Robetson D.M.
Robinson W.G.
Romance W.C.
Rosin E.
Rudick P. *
Ruppenthal E.
Ryckman G.O.
Salt W.H.
Sanketti A.
Seibel W.
Sellar E.H. *
Sexton W.
Skinner G.C.
Slingsby L.G.
Smith F.J.
Smith G.E.J.
Smith L.
Snyder E.
Snyder R.L.
Spencer A.C.
Stephens R.J.
Stewart J.G. *
Stolash F.J.
Storey J.I.L.
Sudal A.
Tait R.
Tapping A.
Tapping A.
Townsend G.F.
Troughton W.A.
Tumilson D.E.
Turenne G.A.
Ustiuk W.
Wade A.C.
Wade J.R.
Waintman D.
Walker G.
Walker J.
Walker J.A.
Wallis A.
Wardle J.W.
Waterer A.
White A.
Whitledge E.L.
Whittaker H.W.
Whittaker J. *
Wilby C.
Wilkinson H.W.L.
Wilson G.
Young R.