International Peace Sculpture

The Forged Peace Sculpture was added to King’s Navy Yard Park in 2012 to mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812. The dedication ceremony of the bi-national project was June 18, 2012. This date marks the first gunshot fired at River Canard at the start of the War of 1812. The sculpture depicts three intertwined muskets used by Canadian, American and First Nation People in the War of 1812 and features a rose blooming from the end of each gun barrel. Lena Lezanga, president of the Amherstburg Rotary Club, worked on the “Forged Peace Sculpture” and bicentennial twinning project with twin sister cities of Put-in-Bay Ohio, and Monroe Michigan. The sculpture, which stands approximately 12ft, was made of bronze cast at a Detroit foundry and bears an inscription noting the twinning and commitment to friendship and peace between the organizations and the three communities. The artist Joseph DeAngelis, a retired professor from School of Visual Arts in Windsor, donated the time. The cost of the local sculpture, shared between the Amherstburg Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce, was $9,800 for casting and the bronze material.