Monument dedicated to the crew of the HMCS Valleyfield

This monument is dedicated to the bravery, determination and courage of the crew of the HMCS Valleyfield which sunk in 1944. The monument was inaugurated on May 7, 2000. A grey-coloured anchor from the destroyer HMCS Gatineau, with some of its chains, is the centerpiece of the monument. A description of the monument is engraved in both official languages on an aluminium plaque at the cement base of the monument. The monument was created together with the City of Valleyfield and the anchor was donated by the Government of Canada. The monument project was submitted by Lieutenant (Navy) Pierre Lefebvre, CD and inaugurated in the presence of survivors of HMCS Valleyfield and a member of U548, as well as various local dignitaries and other officials.

N.C.S.M. VALLEYFIELD K-329

Monument érigé a la mémoire de la frégate

N.C.S.M. VALLEYFIELD K-329

Armée le 7 décembre 1943,

torpilée et coulée la nuit du 6 au 7 mai 1944

par le sous-marin allemand U-548

lors de la bataille de l’Atlantique.

Monument dédié

aux 120 officiers et hommes

qui reposent avec leur navire

au fond de l’Océan Atlantique

90 milles au sud de Cape Race, Terre-Neuve,

aux 5 Marins inhumés à St-Jean de Terre-Neuve

et aux 38 survivants

INAUGURÉ CE DIMANCE 7 MAI 2000

Sous l’égide de la Ville de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

en présence de M. Denis Lapointe, maire

Marcel Gareau, prêtre

les survivants de la Frégate N.C.S.M. Valleyfield K-329

Clifford Winter, président de

la Légion canadienne filiale 62

et le lieutenant (M) Pierre Lefebvre, CD, A. de C.

à qui nous devons cette initiative.

Monument erected

to the memory of the frigate

H.M.C.S VALLEYFIELD K-329

commissioned December 7, 1943,

torpedoed and sunk the night of May 6 to 7. 1944

by U-548

during the battle of the Atlantic.

Monument dedicated

to the memory of the 120 officers and men

who rest with their ship

in the Atlantic ocean

90 miles south of Cape Race, Newfoundland,

to the 5 who lie buried in St-John’s

and the 38 who survived.

UNVEILED ON SUNDAY MAY 7^TH 2000

Under the auspices of the City of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

in presence of Mr. Denis Lapointe, mayor

Mr. Marcel Gareau, priest

The survivors of H.M.C.S Valleyfield K-329

Mr. Clifford Winter, president of

the Canadian Legion Branch 62

and lieutenant (N) Pierre Lefebvre, CD. A.de.C

to whom we owe this initiative.