Cénotaphe de Renfrew

Renfrew, Ontario
Type
Autre

Le cénotaphe Renfrew, de granit gris, est un don de Thomas Andrew Low, un homme d’affaires local qui fut élu trois fois au Parlement. En 1918, il effectua l’aménagement paysager du parc de la ville et construisit le cénotaphe portant les noms des victimes de guerre de Rendrew et du district environnant. 

Le cénotaphe en granit gris, conçu par Richard Hubert Millson et Cecil Burgess, a été construit en 1931. Les noms des soldats morts au combat pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et les dates de la guerre de Corée ont été ajoutés plus tard. Le cénotaphe a été restauré en 2008 avec l'aide financière d’Anciens Combattants Canada, grâce à son programme de restauration de cénotaphes. 

Inscription

[front/devant]
1914
1918

YPRES
VIMY RIDGE
MONS

TO ALL
OUR
HONOURED
DEAD

"THEY SHALL NOT
GROW OLD,
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT
GROW OLD:
AGE SHALL NOT
WEARY THEM,
NOR THE YEARS
CONDEMN.
AT THE GOING DOWN
OF THE SUN AND IN
THE MORNING WE WILL
REMEMBER THEM."

GIFT OF
HON. THOS A. LOW

[right side/côté droit]
1939 - 1945

REMEMBERING
THE MEN
OF THIS VICINITY
WHO DIED OVERSEAS

STEWART W. JOBSON
WILLIAM S. JOHNSTON
THOMAS R. JONES
HERB C. JORDAN
DUNCAN R. KIPPEN
FRED MEREDITH
GEORGE E. MILLAR
DANIEL J. MULVIHILL
ARTHUR McMAHON
ROY McNAB
EARL L. NICOL
HOWARD A. O'HARE
JAMES A. PHILLIPS
THOMAS PULCINE
HAROLD PUTINSKI
RAYMOND ROSE
EARL RICARD
LAWRENCE SCHWARTZ
LLOYD SCOTT
HAROLD SHEEHAN
MOODIE STEWART
HAMILTON R. STEWART
JOSEPH G. StLOUIS
ALFRED D. WADE
WARD WARREN
HECTOR WILSON
KEITH WILLIS
WILFRED R. GAGNON
ELLARD SEARSON
FRED McLEOD

[left side/côté gauche]

1939 - 1945

REMEMBERING
THE MEN
OF THIS VICINITY
WHO DIED OVERSEAS

ROBERT A. BARR
HAROLD BARR
PATRICK BLIMKIE
JACK BOX
LOUIS BROWN
JAMES BROWN
ADRIAN J. BURWELL
EMERY CASTONGUAY
MILTON CHARBONNEAU
MERVYN CRAM
GLEN CROGIE
MICK DANYLUK
JEROME DOMINICO
ANTHONY DORZEK
WALLACE DUCHARME
HAROLD EADY
MICHAEL L. ENRIGHT
DONALD M. FROATS
G. GORDON FROATS
JOHN L. GAUTHIER
LLOYD GOODFELLOW
JOHN P. GRACE
ALLAN W. GUEST
RAYMOND HALE
DAVID R. HUNTER
WILLARD JAMIESON
JAMES A. DUNNE
THOMAS MULVIHILL
GARNET SCOBIE

KOREA
1950-1953

[back/arrière]
1914
1918

SOMME

PASSCHENDAELE

AMIENS

REMEMBERING THE MEN OF THIS VICINITY
WHO DIED OVERSEAS

CAMERON MACKAY
LORNE V. FROOD
BOYD FROOD
FERGUSON BREMNER
MICHAEL A. BREMNER
MICHAEL NARLOCK
JOHN HASTINGS
NELSON DEMPSEY
SAMUEL DEMPSEY
GEORGE P. DUPUIS
JOHN TROY
JAMES HARTY
WM. J. STEWART
ROBERT V. ANDERSON
ALFRED W. ANDERSON
DONALD BENNETT
GORDON HUGHES
ARTHUR TOMLINSON
GORDON H. MAIN
R. ROY AIRTH
DELPHISE LAPOINTE
PHILIP FREEMARK
WM. B. SCOTT
CLARENCE J. SIBARY
SAMUEL WIGHT
WILLIAM WIGHT
MACKIE B. MUIRHEAD
DOUGLAS MORROW
IAN MACKINNON
DUNCAN W. GRAHAM
JOHN LETERSKI
PETER CYBULSKI
ANTHONY CYBULSKI
JAMES B. LACEY
COLIN J. HICKEY
G. ALEX McLAREN
F.C. CARTER
FRANK McGOWAN
THOS. McGOWAN
JOSEPH R. DOYLE
THOS. HENRY CRUISE
RENE DESNOYERS
THOMAS DEGRAS
JOSEPH A. LAPLANTE
JOHN A. RYAN

 

CHARLES REID
DONALD McLEOD
SAMUEL T. WALKER
ARTHUR L. HENDRY
CHARLES L. PORTES
ALEX. SHIELDS
STANTON CLARK
C.J. LAVALEE
BERT BROWN
CLIFFORD BRISCOE
JOSEPH ST. DENIS
DANIEL MARRS
JAMES F. VALIQUETTE
GUY McINTYRE
BERNARD S. McINTYRE
FRANCIS McINTYRE
HARRY McINTYRE
G. CLIFFORD McARTHUR
ALLAN L. SMITH
WALTER W. SMITH
JOSEPH A. QUILTY

[plaque]
THOMAS ANDREW LOW 1871 - 1931

TOM LOW CAME TO RENFREW IN 1889 A POOR
BOY. BY HARD WORK AND UNUSUAL FORESIGHT
HE HAD BY 1920 ORGANIZED FIVE FINANCIALLY
SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. IN
1928 HE UNITED HIS COMPANIES TO FORM
RENFREW INDUSTRIES LIMITED. HARD HIT BY
THE DEPRESSION AND THE SUDDEN DEATH OF
TOM LOW IN 1931 THE INDUSTRIES WERE SOLD
BY THE SHAREHOLDERS AS SEPERATE COMPANIES
IN 1936. THRICE ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT TOM
LOW WAS APPOINTED TO THE CABINET IN 1921
AND IN 1923 WAS MADE MINISTER OF TRADE
AND COMMERCE. IN 1918 HE LANDSCAPED THE
TOWN PARK WHICH WAS THEN NAMED LOW
SQUARE. IN IT HE BUILT THE CENOTAPH BEARING
THE NAMES OF RENFREW AND DISTRICT WAR
DEAD.

 

Location
Cénotaphe de Renfrew

127, rue Raglan
Renfrew
Ontario
Coordonnées GPS
Lat. 45.4728032
Long. -76.6851847

Renfrew Cenotaph

Tamra Thomson, Great War 100 Reads
1 sur 6 images

front inscription

Louise Bellec
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plaque

Louise Bellec
1 sur 6 images

left side inscription

Louise Bellec
1 sur 6 images

right side inscription

Louise Bellec
1 sur 6 images

back inscription

Tamra Thomson, Great War 100 Reads
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