July 1 is Canada Day. The Peace Tower is the backdrop for festivities on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. A real star is inside … the Memorial Chamber above the entrance. (The gothic window above the entrance arch marks the location … Continue reading
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Monday Monuments and Memorials – The Tunnellers’ Friends, Memorial Chamber, Ottawa
Over the doorway leading to the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower, this tympanum pays tribute to animals that served during the war – reindeer, pack mules, carrier pigeons, horses, dogs, canaries and mice. The inscription reads: The tunnellers’ friends, … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – Room of Remembrance, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
For a few weeks this August, Great War 100 Reads is revisiting some sites, to explore additional or altered elements of remembrance. The Memorial Chamber in Ottawa’s Peace Tower has been a star feature in several Monday posts, for … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – Newfoundland and Merchant Navy Books of Remembrance, Peace Tower, Ottawa
But now, though the War has almost passed from living memory, these men and women are still remembered: For their lives meant more than the War in which they died, and their deaths more than can be known. (Merchant Navy … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – War Memorial, Durham, ON
Veterans Memorial Park, corner of Mill and Albert Streets, Durham. A bronze statue of a soldier stands atop a red granite monument, “in memory of the men of Durham and vicinity who gave their lives for humanity in the Great … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – John Gordon Wardlaw Gibson, Vimy Monument, France
Each soldier tells a story. So does each family left behind. Cathy Cummings (a GW100R follower) has graciously permitted me to share a post she wrote last month about her great uncle: Today I am remembering not only my great … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – War Widow and Recording Angel, Peace Tower, Ottawa
Enter the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower in Ottawa, turn around and look up to see two sculptures by Frances Loring. In the gable tympanum is the Recording Angel, inscribing the names of the fallen in the Book of … Continue reading
Monuments and Memorials
Great War 100 Reads features photos of First World War tributes from my travels near and far. Monday Monuments and Memorials takes an expansive view of what belongs – statues, cenotaphs, plaques, grave markers, sculptures, war art, ephemera and many other remembrances of the … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – In Flanders Fields
Tomorrow marks 100 years since John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields was first published – anonymously – in Punch magazine. Since then, the poem and its symbolic poppies have been linked to the remembrance of loss and sacrifice in war. … Continue reading
Monday Monuments and Memorials – Alan Brookman Beddoe, Ottawa, ON
Each soldier tells a story. LCdr Alan Beddoe served with the Canadian Expeditonary Force during WW1. He was captured in 1915 and spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war. After the war, he studied art in … Continue reading
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