Other

City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-057
Type
Address
1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB
Location
Municipal park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.041243564495, -114.07026328776
Inscription

[front/devant]

PASS NOT IN SORROW BUT WITH PRIDE

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Deirdre Kraft
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bench (front)
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Body Content

This memorial, erected by the citizens of Calgary, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War and the Korean War.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Granite bench
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3179
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-056
Type
Address
1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB
Location
Municipal park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.041179478671, -114.07020427916
Inscription

[plaque]

TO COMMEMORATE 100 YEARS SERVICE DONATED BY CALGARY VETERANS JUNE 11 1967

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Deirdre Kraft
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flame (front)
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flame (plaque)
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Body Content

This flame was erected by Calgary veterans on 11 June 1967 in honour of one hundred years of military service.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Eternal flame
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3184
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-055
Type
Address
1221 2 Street SW
Location
Municipal park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.0407711, -114.0682676
Inscription

TO THE MEMORY
OF
THOSE OF THE
50TH BATTN.
WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914 — 1918

Erected by the
50th Battn. C.E.F.,
their Ladies' Auxiliary
and the 2nd Battn.
Calgary Regiment

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Deirdre Kraft
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50th Battalion First World War Fountain
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Body Content

The 50th Battalion Fountain was erected in 1930 to honour those of the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who died during the First World War. It was erected by the battalion, its Ladies' Auxiliary and the 2nd Battalion, The Calgary Regiment.

The 50th Battalion, which was authorized on 7 November 1914 as the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, embarked for Britain on 27 October 1915. The battalion disembarked in France on 11 August 1916, where it fought as part of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 30 August 1920.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Fountain - granite
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3183
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-054
Type
Address
1221 2 Street SW
Location
Central Memorial Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.041549, -114.0682553
Inscription

IN MEMORY OF THE
BRAVE MEN OF THE
PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
WHO IN THE SOUTH
AFRICAN WAR OF
1899-1902 GAVE THEIR
LIVES FOR THEIR
COUNTRY'S HONOUR.
THIS MONUMENT IS
ERECTED BY THE
CITIZENS OF CALGARY
1914

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Deirdre Kraft, Victoria Edwards
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South African War Memorial
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right side - bronze plate with a profile of Queen Victoria
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left side - bronze plate with King Edward VII's profile
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inscription
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War or Conflict Term
Province
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Body Content

The South African War Memorial was unveiled on June 20, 1914. Only Veterans and their families were allowed in the park, while non-military citizens packed the streets. Boy scouts, fire fighters, and cadets were mobilized to guard the flower beds at the park. The memorial was unveiled by the District Officer Commander Colonel Cruickshank. R.B. Bennett, KC, MP, addressed the crowd.

In 1909, a man was found on the outskirts of city, frozen to death. The only documentation found on him were papers identifying him as a Veteran of the South African War, having been discharged from the Lord Strathcona’s Horse Regiment. The Veterans of Calgary raised funds and provided the man with a proper soldier's funeral and burial.

Word of the soldier's death reached his family in England and they insisted the Veterans be reimbursed the cost of the funeral. When the money arrived, the Veterans decided that it was more important that the memories of their brethren be remembered, and so the reimbursed funeral expenses became the beginning of a fundraising campaign to build a memorial to the fallen of the South African War.

A committee was formed with representatives from the Western Veterans Association, the Canadian Club, Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, and the City of Calgary. In 1911, the committee  approached the world famous French-Canadian sculptor Louis-Phippe Hebert in 1911 to design a memorial.

Hebert himself decided that the Central Memorial Park site was the best location for the statue. He went to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of his first and only equestrian monument. Hebert had a genuine Calgary Quarter Horse sent by train to his Montreal studio and came to Calgary periodically to study the Calgary Horses in their natural environment.

Hebert requested a “typical Canadian army man type” to be sent to him from the Canadian Army, but was given a new recruit fresh off the boat from the United Kingdom instead of an Albertan soldier. Captain Thomas Henry Johnson posed for the statue. When Hebert came to Calgary to make the final arrangements for the monument, he decided to take the opportunity to see “the western horse in its own setting” and make a few alterations to the horse and rider. Hebert had Eneas McCormick dress as a South African War soldier to model for the piece.

On the left side is a bronze plate with King Edward VII's profile and on the right side is a bronze plate with a profile of Queen Victoria. The memorial was completed in 1914. It was the last major piece of artwork Louis-Phippe Hebert completed and the only equestrian statue he ever made.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Shaft - granite, staute - bronze
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3182
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-053
Type
Address
1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB
Location
Memorial park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.041105154109, -114.0693338767
Inscription

[front/devant]

THEY
SHALL NOT
DIE WHILE
MEMORY
FULFILS
ITS TASK OF
GRATITUDE

THIS MEMORIAL
ERECTED IN 1928
BY THE CITIZENS
OF CALGARY AND
DISTRICT

[back/arrière]

THOSE WHO DIED
1914 - 1918

1939 - 1945

KOREA
1950 - 1953

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Kevin Evans; Deirdre Kraft; Harry Palmer
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front
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back
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side
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surroundings
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Body Content

Erected in 1928 by the citizens of Calgary and area, this large memorial shaft was originally dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War. Inscriptions and plaques to the war dead of the Second World War and the Korean War were added later.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Granite shaft
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3185
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-052
Type
Address
1227 Kensington Close NW, Calgary, AB
Location
Hillhurst United Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.05144781809, -114.09184827365
Inscription

[front/devant]

To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of the Members of this Congregation who gave Their Lives in the War

(needs further research/recherche incomplète)

"Be Thou Faithful Unto Death and I Will Give Thee a Crown of Life"
Revelation 2:10

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Deirdre Kraft
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plaque (surroundings)
Province
Body Content

This memorial is dedicated to the members of the congregation killed during the Second World War.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Marble plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3187
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-051
Type
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
0, 0
Inscription

IN MEMORY OF
THOSE OF THIS CHURCH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR HUMANITY
IN THE GREAT WAR,
1914 - 1919

  • R.B. BARNES
  • JOHN CALDER
  • LESLIE W. HARRIS
  • WALTER HEAD
  • F.J. HORNE
  •  
  • ARTHUR C. MARSHALL
  • J.C. OXBOROUGH
  • HAROLD H. SAYRE
  • ROBERT A. STEEN
  • ARTHUR TABBENER
  • RALPH E. WEST

"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE."

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Deirdre Kraft
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Wesley Methodist Church First World War Plaque
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Paper Certificate
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War or Conflict Term
Province
Body Content

This memorial was dedicated to the memory of the members of Wesley Methodist Church who killed during the First World War. The church at 1315 7 Street SW closed in 2003 and it is not known what happened to the plaque.

When the church opened in 1911, it was as the Wesley Methodist Church. In 1925, with the uniting of Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Canada it became known as the Wesley United Church.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3186
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-050
Type
Address
801-11 Street SW
Location
Mewata Armouries
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.0466049, -114.0887161
Inscription

Dedicated to the Soldiers of the
103rd Regiment (Calgary Rifles),
10th Canadian Infantry
Battalion (C.E.F.)
and
The Calgary Highlanders
Who Have Served Canada In
War and Peace.

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front and right side
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front
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plaque
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Body Content

Dedicated to the soldiers of the 103rd Regiment (Calgary Rifles), 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Canadian Expeditionary Force) and The Calgary Highlanders who have served Canada in war and peace.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Artillery - Sherman tank
Photo Credit
Dick Roach
Memorial CF Legacy ID
4816
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-049
Type
Address
7550 Ogden Dale Road SE
Location
CPKC Headquarters
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
50.9921878, -114.0015012
Inscription

[front/devant]

THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THOSE IN THE SERVICE
OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY WHO
AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT
WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDSHIP, FACED DANGER
AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF SIGHT OF MEN BY THE
PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE. GIVING UP THEIR
OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT
THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.

1914  YPRES  FESTUBERT  THE SOMME  VIMY  HILL 70  1918
PASSCHENDAELE  AMIENS  CAMBRAI  DROCOURT QUEANT  MONS


1914-1918  1939-1945

FOR VALOUR

  • Captain Ronald Neil Stuart VC DSO RD
    Royal Navy Reserve
    For Valour at Sea, June 7th, 1917
  • Private Michael James O'Rourke VC MM
    7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
    For Valour at Lens, France August 15th to 16th, 1917
  • Private James Peter Robertson VC
    27th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
    For Valour at Passchendaele, France November 6th, 1917
  • Sergeant William Merrifield VC MM
    4th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
    For Valour at Abancourt, France October 1st, 1918
  • Warrant Officer Class II John Robert Osborn VC
    Winnipeg Grenadiers
    For Valour at Mount Butler, Hong Kong December 19th, 1941
  • Captain Frederic Thornton Peters VC DSO DSC/Bar DSC (U.S.) RD
    Royal Navy
    For Valour at Oran, Algeria November 8th, 1942

Employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway awarded the Victoria Cross for Gallantry and Valour

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Deirdre Kraft
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Canadian Pacific Railway World Wars Memorial prior to adding the For Valour plaque.
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CPKC Archives
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Canadian Pacific Railway Great War Tablet
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CPKC Archives
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Canadian Pacific Railway World Wars Memorial
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CPKC Archives
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For Valour Plaque
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Body Content

The Canadian Pacific Railway Great War Tablet in the Calgary Station was dedicated on April 28, 1922. The tablet then moved to their head office at Gulf Canada Square (9th Avenue SW) and eventually to its current location at the new Headquarters at Ogden. Following the Second World War, a small crest was added under the tablet, now honouring employees who served in either conflict. The tablet and crest were mounted on a cairn around 2017 and the For Valour plaque was added on Remembrance Day 2021.

To honour those who served and gave their lives during the Great War, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) erected a series of bronze memorial tablets in over twenty select locations along their railway system and offices in Canada, United States, England and China. The tablet depicts Britannia, the national personification of Britain, as a helmeted female warrior with a lion to her right and a shield at her feet, HMS Lion (Admiral Beatty's flagship during the Battle of Jutland) with airplanes above and a tank in front, Canadian Pacific Steamship RMS Empress of Russia (used during the war as an armed merchant cruiser and transport ship), Canadian troops, and a CPR locomotive in a nod to all those who travelled by train across Canada before heading overseas. The plaque was designed by Archibald Pearce, Chief Engineer's Department, Montreal, with its model and casting by the Bromsgrove Guild at Worcester, England.

Original location Current location
CPR Office, Saint John, New Brunswick McAdam Railway Museum, McAdam, New Brunswick
Du Palais CPR Station, Quebec City, Quebec Du Palais CPR Station, Quebec City, Quebec
Viger Station, Montreal, Quebec Exporail, Montreal, Quebec
Windsor Station, Montreal, Quebec Windsor Station, Montreal, Quebec
Angus Shops, Montreal, Quebec CPKC Archives, Calgary, Alberta (in storage)
North Toronto Station, Toronto, Ontario Union Station, Toronto, Ontario
West Toronto Station, Toronto, Ontario unknown
North Bay Station, North Bay, Ontario North Bay Memorial Park, North Bay, Ontario
Fort William Union Station, Fort William, Ontario Thunder Bay Station, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Weston Shops, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weston Shops, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Saskatoon Station, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Thomas Cook Restaurant, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw Station, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Old Moose Jaw Station, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Regina Station, Regina, Saskatchewan Casino Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Calgary Station, Calgary, Alberta CPKC Headquarters, Calgary, Alberta
Calgary Natural Resources Building, Calgary, Alberta The Military Museums, Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton Station, Edmonton Alberta CPKC Archives, Calgary, Alberta (in storage)
Nelson Station, Nelson, British Columbia Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, Nelson, British Columbia
Vancouver Station, Vancouver, British Columbia unknown
Steamship Office, Victoria, British Columbia Royal British Columbia MuseumVictoria, British Columbia
CPR Office, New York, New York, United States Exporail, Montreal, Quebec
CPR Office, Liverpool, England Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, England
CPR Building, Charing Cross, London, England unknown
CPR Office, Hong Kong, China Believed destroyed during the Japanese occupation in the Second World War.

All tablets were unveiled simultaneously on the same date along with three identical Winged Victory memorials in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Cairn - brick, tablet - bronze
Memorial CF Legacy ID
13
City/Municipality
Calgary
Memorial Number
48002-048
Type
Address
1221 2 St SW, Calgary, AB
Location
Calgary Public Library
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.0411282, -114.0686947
Inscription

[plaque/plaque]

TO THE IMPERISHABLE GLORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PROVINCE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

ERECTED BY COL. MACLEOD CHAPTER, I.O.D.E.

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Deirdre Kraft
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front view
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plaque
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Surroundings
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Body Content

Erected by the Colonel MacLeod Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.), this memorial is dedicated to the Albertan war dead of the First World War. The plaque on the front of the shaft bears the images of a soldier, an angel carrying a trumpet, and the crest of the IODE.

City
Calgary
Country
Type Description
Iron statue and granite shaft
Memorial CF Legacy ID
2046