Erected by the village of Garson, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars. The Garson history books date the unveiled on June 25, 1933.
The Garson Cenotaph combines a stout obelisk with tapered support blocks that make for an unusual design and presence. The monument is made from Manitoba limestone, also called Tyndall stone. The front has seven names from the First World War and an inscription from Lawrence Binyon’s 1914 poem “For the Fallen.” One stanza is familiar in the Act of Remembrance. Only the final lines are used (with a change from the original “will” to “shall”): “At the Going Down of the Sun and in the Morning we Shall Remember Them.”
Later, five names of the fallen from the Second World War were added.
