Verdun Victory Memorial
Municipality/Province: Montréal (Verdun), QC
Memorial number: 24074-001
Type: Shaft - granite, statues - bronze
Address: 637 1st Avenue
Location: Souvenir Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.4586608 Long: -73.5724795
Submitted by: Rosemary Elson. Dr. Serge Durflinger. Michel Litalien. Alan Hustak.
The Verdun Victory Memorial was constructed by Coeur de Lion MacCarthy for the city of Verdun and dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War. It was unveiled on 5 October 1924 by Jane Leavitt, a Verdun mother who lost three of her five sons in the First World War. The memorial originally stood in a park at the corner of Wellington Street and Mullarkey Avenue (now LaSalle Boulevard), but was moved in front of the city hall in 1959.
One statue depicts a Canadian solder in an exultant attitude, his shrapnel helmet in hand and his rifle raised in the spirit of victory. At the base of the monument is a female figure, symbolic of patriotism and peace, holding in her right hand the flags of victory and supporting with her left hand a shield bearing the arms of the City of Verdun.
The Second World War and Korean War were later added to the memorial's inscription.
Coeur de Lion MacCarthy, the son of sculptor Hamilton McCarthy, produced numerous commemorative works after the First World War, including: Winged Victory in British Columbia; Great War Memorial and Lethbridge Cenotaph in Alberta; Winged Victory in Manitoba; County of Brome War Memorial, Verdun Victory Memorial, Monument to the Brave and Winged Victory in Quebec; Clifton Hill War Memorial and Woodstock Cenotaph in Ontario.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF VERDUN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919
À LA GLOIRE DE DIEU ET À LA MÉMOIRE DES HOMMES DE VERDUN MORTS AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR DURANT LA GUERRE 1914 - 1919
DEDICATED IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945
DÉDIÉ À LA MÉMOIRE DE CEUX QUI TOMBÈREN DURANT LA DEUXIÈME GUERRE MONDIALE 1939 - 1945
KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953
GUERRE DE COREE 1950 - 1953
[right side/côté droit]
YPRES
FESTUBERT
ST-ELOI
MOUNT SORREL
SOMME
VIMY RIDGE
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
[left side/côté gauche]
SOMME
AMIENS
ARRAS
DROCOURT-QUEANT
CANAL DU NORD
CAMBRAI
VALENCIENNES
MONS
Street view
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