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1914 1918
THIS MONUMENT COMMEMORATES THOSE BOYS OF WESTERN CANADA COLLEGE WHO AT THE DAWN OF THEIR MANHOOD DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
GRAHAM E. ADAM
R. BLAKE ALLAN
T. STEPHENS ALLAN
JOHN TURNER BONE
E. LYLE BERKINSHAW
A.G. CAMPBELL
KENNETH CORSON
JOHN FRANCIS COSTIGAN
S. COWES
STANLEY COWAN
ROBERT S. CRAIG
STUART R. CUTHBERT
G. DICKINSON
THEODORE DICKSON
C.D. DOUGLAS
JOHN NORRIS EATON
A. FITZHERBERT
DOUGLAS FULTON
RUDOLPH GAETZ
W. GARRETT
L.G. GOLDING
TERENCE SMYTHE HALL
H.A. HARDING
R. HARRIS
I. INGRAM
ROLAND HOPE JOHNSTON
R. JOWETT
FRANK LAWSON
CHARLES M. LAWSON
JOHN MANUEL
FREDERICK G. MARSHALL
F.W. EDWARD MAUNSELL
HAROLD MUSGROVE
STEWART MCTAVISH
T. MCFARLAND
A.S. OLIVE
T. PRATT
F. PURVIS
ALEXANDER G. PARLBY
H. PARSLOW
THOMAS RILEY
HAROLD SAYRE
WALLACE SHARPE
CHARLES SUTTON
GEORGE WILLIAM TISDALE
STANLEY WRIGHT
R.W. WEBSTER
PERCY YOUNG
[right side/côté droit]
KOREA
1950 - 1953
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DEDICATED TO THE STUDENTS AND STAFF OF WESTERN CANADA HIGH SCHOOL WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II, THE KOREAN CONFLICT AND AS PEACEKEEPERS
Erected by the Western Canada College (now Western Canada High School), this memorial is dedicated to its students who were killed during the First World War and who served during the Second World War, the Korean War and on peacekeeping duty. The front of the memorial bears a cross of sacrifice embedded into the granite.
George Fordyce (1880-1944) designed the War Memorial at Western Canada College, 1927.
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IN MEMORY OF
LT. COL. R.L. BOYLE
OFFICERS N.C.O.S
& MEN OF THE TENTH BATTN.
WHO FELL AT THE
SECOND BATTLE OF
YPRES
APRIL 22ND
1915
ERECTED BY SURVIVING
MEMBERS OF THE BATTALION
TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF GOD
IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS N.C.O.S
AND MEN OF THE CALGARY
HIGHLANDERS WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE WAR 1939 - 1945
PERPETUATING UNIT OF THE 10TH BN. C.E.F.
GOD SAVE OUR KING
This plaque honour the members of the 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed at the Second Battle of Ypres on 22 April 1915 and the dead of the Calgary Highlanders during the Second World War.
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LEST WE FORGET
In May of 1922, Calgary Mayor Adams planted the first of many trees to line the City's new Memorial Drive. These trees were planted in remembrance of the men who were sent overseas from Calgary and who fell in The Great War of 1914-18.
During the 1980's many of these trees were removed, victims of old age, disease and road widening.
In June 1990, Calgary Mayor Al Duerr, assisted by representatives of the Royal Canadian Legion and the Parks Foundation, Calgary, planted the first of numerous replacement and additional trees on Memorial Drive.
This plaque was placed September 9, 1990 to rededicate Memorial Drive and its trees to the continued memory of those who fell, and those who served, not only in the Great War but in World War II, Korea and in Peacekeeping Missions in many parts of the world.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM !
Project Sponsored by: Royal Canadian Legion
Parks Foundation, Calgary
City of Calgary
September 9, 1990
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THESE NATIVE TREES ARE LIVING MEMOMRIALS
OF MEN WHO DIED FOR YOUR FREEDOM
1914-18 VETERANS ASSOCIATION
On May 10, 1922, a line of trees were planted along the new Memorial Drive and dedicated in memory of Calgarians who died during the First World War. The memorial was rededicated on 9 September 1990, to incorporate additional trees along Memorial Drive and the addition of the remembrance of local Veterans of the Second World War, Korean War and peacekeeping missions around the world.
The Calgary Parks Department in its annual report for 1919 referred to a local movement to plant memorial trees. Council chose to place the trees along a section of an existing boulevard on the north bank of the Bow River between Centre Street and St. George’s Island bridge. Nine hundred trees were planted the first year, many sponsored by city service groups and clubs as well as next-of-kin. By 1927, approximately 1,700 trees had been planted three rows deep.
Calgary’s Memorial Drive has been extended and widened into a major cross-city route, many of its original trees and all of its plaques have been lost.
In 1918, Canadians turned to the duty of commemorating the dead. Some promoted practical memorials like Roads of Remembrance. These linear tree-lined avenues had trees that were typically a single species, regularly spaced along each side of the avenue that would grow tall and stately. American elms were chosen for many of these avenues. A small plaque was used to assign a particular tree to a specific fallen soldier. In some cases, the next-of-kin was involved in purchasing the tree and/or plaque for the deceased soldier.
Roads of Remembrance were based on two symbol-laden images. The first was France’s tree-lined country avenues: “long straight roads, with large elms on either side, beautiful and useful, and loved by the Canadians overseas.” The second symbol was a living memorial: trees represented the victory of life over death. Memorial trees became living symbols of the sacrifices made overseas.
TO HONOUR THE MEN OF THE
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY WHO DIED FOR CANADA
IN WORLD WAR II
1939-1945
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THEY DIED THAT FREEDOM MIGHT LIVE
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12TH CALGARY TROOP
FIRST ALBERTA
This plaque hangs in St. Stephen's Church
1939-1945
IN HONOUR OF THE CALGARY MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING WITH THE 14TH CDN. ARMD. REGT.
CALGARY REGT. (T).
LIEUT. W. BERESFORD
TPR. C.W.CLARK
LIEUT. W.W. MORROW
SGT. A.J. HARRISON
CAPT. D.G. PURDY
TPR. V.F. OLLIFFE
MAJOR D.G. TROTTER
TPR. W. MCCURLIE
LIEUT. A.R. WELLS
L/CPL. J.P. ROWLES
This plaque hangs in St. Stephen's Church
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1914-1919
OUR VOLUNTEERS IN THE GREAT WAR
This plaque hangs in St. Stephen's Church
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FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
ST. STEPHEN'S PARISH CHURCH
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH
CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES
1939-1945
This Honour Roll hangs in St. Stephens Church.
VIGILANS ET AUDAX
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOHN STAMFORDHAM WHITE
ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY
AGE 34 YEARS
KILLED IN ACTION, ITALY OCT. 12, 1944
BURIED NEAR SAN MAURO
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS WIFE
EDYTHE AND HIS SON HARRY
This plaque hangs in St. Stephen's Church.
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
SERGT. THOS. J. EBDEN 56TH BATT. C.E.F.
BORN OCT. 12TH 1893.
KILLED IN ACTION SEPT. 30TH 1916,
IN THE BATTLE OF COURCELETTE.
THO' LOST TO SIGHT, TO MEMORY DEAR
This plaque hangs in St. Stephen's Church.
