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There is no information on when the St. Patrick’s College Second World War Honor Roll was made or who made it. 

Opened in September 1929, Saint Patrick's College was intended to meet the needs of secondary and post-secondary English speaking Catholics in the Ottawa area. On July 12, 1967, the college ceased to exist as a separate Catholic school, departed from the University of Ottawa and become a faculty at Carleton University. On January 31, 1979, the Board of Governors at Carleton announced that the college would cease to exist in the following academic year. For a time it was a campus of Algonquin College and presently houses Immaculata High School.

This memorial is dedicated to the memory of Fort Lennox.

This bridge was built by 3^rd Field Engineer Regiment, Royal Canadian Engineers and dedicated on 30 October 1994 to Warrant Officer II Walter "Rocky" Leja, GM, CD, a former Regimental Sergeant Major of 3^rd Field Engineer Regiment in Montreal, Quebec. The bridge spans Cournoyer Creek.

Walter Leja was born in Koniówka, Poland and later emigrated to Canada. He joined the Canadian Army (The Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers) and became a bomb disposal expert. During the Front de libération du Québec Crisis, on 17 May 1963, he had successfully dismantled two bombs that had been planted in mailboxes in Westmount. A third bomb, found in a mailbox, exploded while Leja was attempting to disarm it. His injuries were life-threatening, but he managed to survive with severe disabilities. He was awarded the George Medal in January 1964 for ‘conspicuous courage and outstanding devotion to duty.’

This memorial is dedicated to Léon Ringuet. It was erected by the citizens of Saint-Hyacinthe.

This memorial is dedicated to those who fought in 1837. It was erected in June 1987 by the City of Saint-Hyacinthe and the Yamaska Regional School Board.

This memorial, which encompassed a concrete memorial wall and a long bronze plaque, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

Rue Salaberry was named in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, CB (November 1778 – February 1829), a hero of the War of 1812.

Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry was born in Beauport, near Quebec City, in November 1778. He enlisted in the British Army in 1792 at the age of 14, and saw action with the 60^th Regiment in the West Indies and in the Netherlands. He was given a company command in 1803, continuing to serve in Europe and the West Indies. In 1810, de Salaberry was recalled to Canada with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served as aide-de-camp to Major General Francis de Rottenburg, but in 1812 he was appointed to command a new corps of volunteers, the Canadian Voltiguers (light infantry). Les Voltiguers were essentially militia men, but de Salaberry trained them as regulars similar to the Fencible units raised in Upper Canada. In November 1812, de Salaberry commanded the advance guard of the force that turned away an American attack at La Colle Mill. Later, some Voltiguers took part in the decisive Battle of Crysler’s Farm. In October 1813, he confronted the Americans threatening Montreal. Colonel de Salaberry, at the head of some 300 Voltiguers and Canadian and First Nations volunteers, repulsed several thousand American troops. In 1817, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He later became a legislative councilor for Lower Canada until his death in February 1829.

Rue Leckie was named in memory of Air Marshal Robert Leckie CB, DSO, DSC, DFC, CD.

Robert Leckie was born in April 1890 at Glasgow, Scotland. He joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915, flying anti-submarine patrols over the North Sea. While flying a Curtiss H12 flying boat, Leckie downed a German zeppelin near Terschelling in May 1917 and downed a second zeppelin during a nighttime raid, thus becoming the only airman to be credited with downing 2 zeppelins. By the end of the war, Leckie was a Wing Commander in the RAF. Between the wars, he was seconded to the Canadian Air Board, and oversaw the creation of air service throughout Canada. He later returned to the RAF, and by 1940 commanded the British air forces in the Mediterranean Sea. As the war expanded later that year, Leckie returned to Canada as Air Member for Training, the officer in charge of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). He transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942. Promoted to Air Marshal in 1944, he was appointed Chief of the Air Staff, a position he held until 1947. After his retirement from the RCAF, Leckie played an active role in the Air Cadet Movement. He died in Ottawa in March 1975.

Rue La Vérendrye was named in memory of Captain Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye.

Born in Trois-Rivières in November 1685, but educated in Québec City, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye received a cadet’s commission in the colonial regulars, a military regiment who along with the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, were the only French regular military units in the French colonies. In 1704-1705 he took part in Queen Anne’s War, the name given to the North American theatre of the “War of the Spanish Succession”. He participated in the Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts as well as the attack on St. John’s, Newfoundland and was promoted to Ensign shortly afterwards. At 22 years of age, he travelled to France to enlist in the Régiment de Bretagne of the French Army. He fought in Flanders during the “War of the Spanish Succession” and was seriously wounded in September 1709 at the Battle of Malplaquet. After recovering from his injuries, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1710 and returned to Canada in 1712, where he farmed his lands for the next 15 years. In 1728, he took over the fur trading enterprise that his brother had founded in the area north of Lake Superior. For the next number of years, La Vérendrye organized various expeditions to explore the Western territories and by 1738 had reached Portage-la-Prairie. By 1743, suffering from ill health and no longer in favour with the authorities of New France, he resigned his post but was granted a captaincy in 1744. He died in Montreal in December 1749.

Rue De Niverville was named in memory of Air Vice-Marshal Joseph Lionel Alphege Albert De Niverville, CB.

Joseph Lionel Alphege De Niverville was born in August, 1897 in Montreal. Educated in Ottawa, he joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and flew until the end of the First World War. Following the war, he was gazette as a Pilot Officer in the Canadian Air Force Reserve, working with the Air Board until March 1924, at which time he was appointed to the newly formed Permanent RCAF on April 1, 1924. He served as a Flying instructor at Camp Borden until September 1927, and was then transferred to AFHQ as Staff Officer Training until April 1931. De Niverville returned to instructing at Station Vancouver where he instructed on sea planes and flying boats, transferring to Station Rockcliffe in 1932. He completed RAF Staff College in 1933 and returned to AFHQ from January 1934 to February 1936, followed by an appointment as Air Staff Officer for Military District No.4 (Montreal) until February 1939. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned to AFHQ then became CO of No.2 Service Flying Training School in August 1941, before being appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 3 Training Command, from October 1941 to November 1943. He was later appointed Air Member for Training at Air Force Headquarters. Following the Second World War, he joined the Department of Transportation, retiring in November 1964.