Voltigeurs de Québec Regiment Memorial
Municipality/Province: Québec, QC
Memorial number: 24051-027
Type: Statue
Address: 805 Wilfrid-Laurier Avenue
Location: Place George-V
GPS coordinates: Lat: 46.80685 Long: -71.2149
Submitted by: Michel Litalien. CCNQ.
The Voltigeurs de Québec Regiment Memorial was unveiled on September 4, 1990. Created by sculptor Raoul Hunter, this bronze was erected to honor the battalion of the Voltigeurs de Québec, the oldest French-Canadian troop corps, formed in 1862. The monument highlights the Voltigeurs' orders of battle, from the Second Fenian Conflict of 1866 to missions with the United Nations. It represents a rifleman, weapon slung over his shoulder, wearing the characteristic cap worn by the soldiers responsible for restoring peace during the conflict with the Métis of the Northwest in 1885.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
LES VOLTIGEURS DE QUÉBEC
Dévoilé le 4 septembre 1990, en présence des membres honoraires du régiment : Monsieur Paul Desmarais, Monsieur Allan R. Taylor, le Colonel Claude Pratte et la très honorable Jeanne Sauvé, des Honoraire : le Colonel Marcel Jobin et le Lieutenant-colonel André Desmarais, du Commandant, le Lieutenant-colonel Alain Gauthier, des Officiers, Sous-officiers et Soldats actuels et anciens du Régiment Les Voltigeurs de Québec.
[back/arrière]
Nos Donateurs - Our Donators
Banque Royale du Canada
Canadien Pacifique
Power Corporation Limitée du Canada
Gouvernement du Québec
Hydro-Québec
La Laurentienne Vie
La Ville de Québec
Le Groupe LGS inc.
Le journal le Soleil
l'Industrielle Alliance
Loto-Québec
Colonel Claude Pratte, c.r., CD
et les Amis du Régiment
Street view
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