Edgewood Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Edgewood, BC
Memorial number: 59033-003
Type: Cairn
Address: Lakeshore Avenue
Location: Edgewood Community Park, near Arrow Lakes Provincial Park - Eagle Creek Site
GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.7763533 Long: -118.1403346
The Edgewood Great War Veterans’ Association was formed in October of 1919. A special meeting was held where J. P. Coates presented plans for a monument to honour the men of the area who had lost their lives in the First World War. In February 1920, permission was granted to build the monument at Valley Road and Edgewood Avenue.
Stone mason, J.N. McLeod, cut the granite for the monument from a local rock cliff and with the help of brick layer, Frank Warner, it was built that fall. Mountain ash, maple and chestnut trees were planted along the streets in 1921, as another gesture towards the fallen.
Forty-two years later the monument was moved to Lakeshore Avenue, the new Edgewood Townsite. Every stone was numbered as it was taken out, and replaced in exactly the same order.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
(plaque)
1939 - 1945
LEST WE FORGET
GEORGE H. ROLLINS
(plaque)
1914 1919
TELL CANADA
YE WHO MARKS THIS
MONUMENT
FAITHFULL TO HER WE FELL
AND REST CONTENT.
WALTER BULL
ARTHUR GOLD
FRED MANT
LEWIS MURTON
WILLIAM MACKINTOSH
WALTER C. SLATER
(plaque)
KOREA
1950 - 1953
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