Québec

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.

Rue Bishop was named in memory of Air Marshal William Avery “Billy” Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED.

William Avery Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on 8 February 1894. During the outbreak of the Great War, he was a cadet at the Royal Military College, in Kingston. He enrolled in the 9th Mississauga Horse, Canadian Expedition Force, on 30 September 1914, and he later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Bishop, who already had the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, became the first Canadian Airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his single-handed early morning attack on an enemy airfield near Cambrai, France. On 2 June 1917, he found seven aircraft on the ground; he attacked and destroyed three, and was later credited with the destruction of the remaining four aircraft. Bishop continued air operations until August 1917 and returned to the front in June 1918. He emerged as the British Empire’s second highest scoring ace, with 72 official victories.

In the Second World War Bishop was an Air Marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and assisted in recruiting. He later died in Palm Beach, United States, on 11 September 1956.

This part of the former Canadian Forces Base Montréal (Saint-Hubert) where this monument is located was handed over to Ciné Cité in 1997. No inscription (plaques and ornaments missing). 

No text (plaque is missing). This part of the former CFB Montréal (Saint-Hubert) where this monument was located was handed over to Ciné Cité in 1997. The memorial tank was removed.

This monument, unveiled in 1983 by Mr. Gilles Lamontagne, Minister of National Defence, is dedicated to the Canadians who built, maintained and flew the first jet fighter interceptor, the Canuck CF-100 which was in service from 1950 to 1962. This section of Canadian Forces Base Montreal (Saint-Hubert) where the monument is located, was handed over to Ciné Cité in 1997.

The plane has been removed and only the concrete pedestal remains.

This monument, composed of a naval anchor and a cement base, was presented to Canadian Forces Base Montreal in 1985 by the naval personnel from 2 CFTSA to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Navy. This section of Canadian Forces Base Montreal (St-Hubert), was handed over to Ciné Cité in 1997. The anchor was removed.