Yarmouth Cenotaph

In November 1920, a banner headline in the Yarmouth Telegram read: "Local Council of Women Urge War Memorial", bringing the idea to construct a war memorial to the attention of everyone. A decision was made by the Town Council and a committee was appointed to proceed with the planning of a worthy memorial. In January, the tasks of collecting the money for the construction and collecting the list of names to be inscribed on the monument began.

The statue of a soldier was designed by Henri Hébert of Montreal. It is seven feet tall, cast in bronze and weighs 680 kilograms. The soldier wears a leather vest and leg wrappings over his puttees; his rifle is covered with a canvas to keep it dry. He is war-weary, caked in mud and has a cigarette stub between his lips. Hébert is the only artist to represent that cigarettes were common in a soldier's life.

The base section was designed and fabricated by Noble & Hyde of Montreal, an architectural firm that designed many monuments already erected in Canada. The granite was supplied by the Standard Granite quarries. The cost for the entire monument was $16,500, all of which was raised by volunteers canvassing for donations. At the time of the unveiling a sum of $10,272 had been collected, the remainder of the amount was collected after. 

The monument was unveiled on June 9, 1923, by the sister of Malcolm Cann. Malcolm Cann along with three others, were the first Canadians to be killed in the line of duty in the First World War. At the time of the unveiling, there were 173 names to be put on the monument. A record was made of every man in Yarmouth County who fell, which included the date and place he was born, where he enlisted, where he died and the brigade in which he was serving at the time of his death. A copy of this record was kept in a vault at the Court House.

Following the end of the Second World War, bronze plaques with the names of those who had lost their lives were added around the base of the monument. After the Korean War, a separate granite marker was placed next to the base to commemorate those lost in that war.

[front/devant]
TO • THE • MEN

THE • ROLL
A • SPENCER • ALLEN
TRUEMAN • M • ALLEN
ERNEST • J • AMIRAULT
LANDRY • AMIRAULT
LOUIS • R • AMIRAULT
FREDERICK • M • ANNABLE
JOSEPH • G • BAIN
PERCY • A • BARRYMAN
L • WOOLSEY • BINGAY
JOHN • BISHARA
G • W • LEE • BLACKADAR
BENJAMIN • D • BLAUVELT
ADELBERT • J • BORDEN
JOHN • M • BOUDREAU
EMILIEN • BOURQUE
ARTHUR • BURGESS
CAG • FRANK • CANN
JAMES • A • CANN
MALCOLM • CANN
JOSEPH • CHALLONER
NATHAN • L • CHIPMAN
COLIN • F • CHISHOLM
NATHAN • L • CHURCHILL
PIERRE • CLAIRMONT
ELKANAH • E • CLEMENTS
SIMON • CLEMENTS
FRANK • L • CORNING
RALPH • A • COSSSAR

(plaque)
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF THOSE PEOPLE OF
YARMOUTH
TOWN AND COUNTY
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND FREEDOM'S CAUSE
1939 - 1945
THE HONOUR ROLL APPEARS
ON THE TABLETS ADJACENT
"Their names live forevermore"

(plaque)
IN MEMORY
OF
FALLEN
CANADAIN SOLDIERS
SERGEANT KIRK TAYLOR
TROOPER COREY HAYES

[right side/côté droit]
HENRI HERBERT 1922

OF • YARMOUTH • COUNTY

• CHARLES • E • CROSBY
• KEITH • B • CROSBY
• T • CARL • CROSBY
• GEORGE • CROWELL
• JONATHAN • CROWELL
• THOMAS • D • CROWELL
• THORPE • D • CROWELL
• ANSELM • D'ENTREMONT
• LEO • J • D'ENTREMONT
• WILLIAM • A • D'ENTREMONT
• WILLIAM • R • D'ENTREMONT
• HIRAM • F • DELANEY
• GEORGE • E • DEVEAU
• JAMES • W • DEXTER
• ERNEST • L • DIXON
• JAMES • F • DOANE
• JOHN • DONAHOE
• G • ALPHONSO • DOUCETTE
• ANTHONY • DOUCETTE
• CELESTIN • DOUCETTE
• FELIX • E • DOUCETTE
• SIMON • DOUCETTE
• RENE • DOUCETTE
• LAWRENCE • DUMPHY
• CHARLES • H • DURKEE
• J • HARVEY • ELDRIDGE
• HARRY • B • ELDRIDGE
• E • ETHAL • ELLIS
• THAYNE • M • EWAN
• ROBERT • E • FITZGERALD
• GEORGE • C • FARISH
• FRANK • L • FORBES
• WILLIAM • H • FOSTER
• GEORGE • I • FOULIS
• E • STANLEY • GARDNER
• F • ROY • GATES
• WILLIAM • A • GAYTON
• JAMES • H • GILES
• MATTHEW • GILES
• THOMAS • GILES
• CALEB • GOODWIN
• MERTON • H • GOODWIN
• ROBERT • L • GOODWIN
• ALBERT • GORDON
• COLIN • C • GRAY
• JOHN • R • GREENOUGH
• ARTHUR • R • HAMILTON
• V • LAWRENCE • HARDING
• LOUIS • HARRIS
• ARTHUR • W • HATFIELD
• GEORGE • W • HATFIELD
• CARL • HEMEON
• VANCE • A • HEMEON
• ADELBERT • HERSEY
• FRANK • HERSEY
• IVAN • V • HIGBY
• EDWARD • F • HILTON
• GEORGE • E • HUBBARD

(plaque)
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
HARRY WILLIAM DOUCETTE
WILLIAM JOSEPH MUISE
JAMES LOGAN HAMILTON

(plaque)

• ADAMS, GEORGE M.
• ALLEN, CARL W.
• AMIRAULT, ALBERT M.
• AMIRAULT, ALPHIE B.
• AMIRAULT, EDWIN
• AMIRO, IRVIN V.
• BABINE, JOSEPH L.
• BELL, JAMES L.
• BELLMAN, WILSON
• BEVERIDGE, MALCOLM S.
• BLANCHARD, PHILIP
• BOUDREAU, ANDRE G.
• BOUDREAU, GERALD C.
• BOUDREAU, JOHN J.
• BOUDREAU, PERCY J.
• BOUDREAU, ROBERT F.
• BOURQUE, DOUGLAS J.
• BRITTAIN, MALCOLM H.
• BRITTAIN, PAUL H.
• BURKE, JOSEPH G.
• CANN, MALCOLM A.
• CANTY, MALCOLM A.
• CHURCHILL, BRUCE W.
• COMEAU, D. EDWARD
• COMEAU, GORDON A.
• COOK, DONALD W.
• COSMAN, NATHAN W.
• COTTREAU, LOUIS G.
• CROMWELL, PERCY C.
• DEVEAU, JOSEPH W.
• DOANE, MURRAY T.
• DOUCETTE, EDWARD
• DOUCETTE, JAMES T.
• DOUCETTE, JOSEPH E.
• DOUCETTE, LOUIS
• DUNN, DOUGLAS C.
• DURLING, DAVID
• D'ENTREMONT, JOSEPH F.

[back/arrière]

CLEMENT • C • JEFFERY
JOSEPH • B • JEFFERY
AMOS • R • JEFFERY
SIDNEY • J • JEFFERY
ALFRED • L • JOHNSON
HAROLD • KEEN
DONALD • KEHOE
JOSEPH • E • KING
FRANK • F • KINNEY
RAYMOND • KOHLIER
LOUIS • LAWRENCE
EUGENE • M • LEWIS
T • • HAROLD • LONG
ERNEST • S • MARSHALL
LLOYD • H • MARSHALL
EDGAR • K • S • MATTHEWS
BENJAMIN • H • MCGRAY
HORACE • J • MCLAUGHLIN
DONALD • L • MORINE
GEORGE • M • MOSES
WILLIAM • S • MOSES
JOHN • E • MOULAISON
ALBERT • J • MUISE
JOHN • ALFRED • MUISE
ARTHUR • MUISE
JOHN • E • MUISE
JOHN • F • MUISE
JOHN • R • MUISE
NELSON • MUISE

(plaque)

• FITZGERALD, LEONARD G.
• FOOTE, DAVID B.
• FORBES, PERCY D.
• GRANT, FREEMAN H.
• GRANT, WILLIAM H.
• GULLISON, FREDERICK E.
• HACKING, DAVID B.
• HAMILTON, DONALD G.
• HARRINGTON, RAYMOND N.
• HARRIS, JOHN L.
• HATFIELD, ARTHUR
• HATFIELD, JACK E.
• HATTIE, JOHN E.
• HATTIE, J. SHERMAN
• HAYES, RAYMOND A.
• HEMEON, KENNETH S.
• HIGBV, KENNETH
• HILTON, THOMAS B.
• HOLDEN, WILLIAM D.
• HORTON, ARTHUR J.
• HUBBARD, JOHN E.
• HUBBARD, P. HENRY
• JACQUARD, ANGUS J.
• JENKINS, WENTWORTH G.
• KENNEY, HAROLD A.
• KENNEY, NORMAN H.
• KILLAM, CHARLES W.
• KING, JAMES B.
• LAFAVE, J. ALBERT
• LARKIN, FRANCIS M.
• LEBLANC, PAUL V.
• LENT, DONALD H.
• LEWIS, GEORGE M.
• MCKENNA, WILLIAM F.
• MELANSON, ERNEST
• MILLARD, THOMAS
• MILLER, EARL
• MOORES, DOUGLAS K.

(plaque)
KOREAN WAR

1950 - 1953
IN HONOUR OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
AND
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO DIED
LEST WE FORGET

EDWIN HERMAN GOODWIN

[left side/côté gauche]
AN • DOM • MCMXIV-MCMXIX

• PETER • MUISE
• EDGAR • MULLEN
• EDWARD • MURREE
• GORDON • S • MURREE
• HENRY • S • MURREE
• RALPH • L • MURREE
• WILLIAM • H • NEITZ
• JOHN • K • O'BRIEN
• CHESTER • PANELL
• OSBORNE • PERRY
• DOUGLAS • C • PIERCE
• CRYSTE • C • POTHIER
• WALTER • POTHIER
• H •  WILLIAM • POWERS
• GEORGE • E • PRICE
• KENNETH • PRICE
• C • LORAN • PURDY
• JAMES • A • RICKER
• JOSEPH • ROBBINS
• HOWARD • I • ROBERTS
• RICHARD • B • ROBINSON
• FRANK • S • ROGERS
• R • LINDSAY • ROGERS
• DAVID • W • ROY
• J • HENRY • ROY
• CLAYTON • RYDER
• IRWIN • C • SAULNIER
• CLARENCE • B • SANDERS
• RAYMOND • A • SAUNDERS
• LEONARD • W • SCOTT
• WILFRED • S • SIMMS
• JESSE • SINCLAIR
• EDGAR • J • SMITH
• HARRY • SMITH
• LLOYD • SMITH
• R • LESLIE • SMITH
• THOMAS • W • SMITH
• VERNELL • SPATES
• CHARLES • E • STINGEL
• THOMAS • W • STONE
• ENOCH • STUDLEY
• RAY • D • SUTTIE
• J • HAROLD • SUTTIE
• GEORGE • SWEENEY
• TRACEY • T • SWEENEY
• HOWARD • W • TAYLOR
• WILLIAM • TITUS
• GORDON • R • TRAVIS
• NURSING • SISTER • A • TUPPER
• GEORGE • A • TURNBALL
• ALEXANDER • J • VICKERY
• G • WILLIAM • WALSH
• J • CLARENCE • WALSH
• WALTER • F • WEDDLETON
• GEORGE • R • WHITMAN
• J • LEWIS • WILLIAMS
• EDWIN • WOOLARD
• WILFRED • A • WYMAN

(plaque)

• MOULAISON, MELBOURNE
• MUISE, ARTHUR
• MUISE, HENRY
• MUISE, JAMES R.
• MUISE, MARY M.
• MUISE, VICTOR A.
• NICKERSON, GORDON S.
• NICKERSON, OSBORNE
• NICKERSON, OTIS K.
• O'HANLEY, CHARLES B.
• O'NEIL, J. PERVIN
• PARKER, HAROLD F.
• POTHIER, BOURNEUF E.
• POTHIER, CHARLES L.
• RATTEE, G. NEIL
• RAYNARD, STANLEY W.
• ROBICHEAU, PERCY J.
• ROGERS, CHARLES W.
• ROSE, IRVIN C.
• ROSE, MALCOLM R.
• ROSS, JOHN A.
• SEARS, HAROLD M.
• SISCO, STILLMAN E.
• SKINNER, LLOYD N.
• SOLLOWS, I. STEEN
• SPINNEY, HUGH T.
• STAR, JOSEPH
• SURETTE, ARTHUR J.
• SURETTE, GEORGE A.
• SWEENEY, BYRON L.
• SWEENEY, KENNETH H.
• TAYLOR, CHARLES W.
• THURSTON, HOWARD F.
• TREFRY, ERNEST F.
• VANAMBURG, JAMES A.
• VICKERY, O'LESLIE
• WARD, JAMES R.
• WHITE, ARNOLD C.