Colombie-Britannique

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS
NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND MEN OF THE
50TH REGT. HIGHLANDERS
OF CANADA (GORDON HIGHLANDERS)
WHO FELL DURING
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

PRESENTED BY
THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER REGIMENT
1863 - 1988

1863 - NEW WESTMINSTER
VOLUNTEER RIFLES
1899 - 6TH BATTALION
DUKE OF CONNAUGHTS OWN RIFLES
1915 - 47TH BATTALION
CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
1936 - THE WESTMINSTER
REGIMENT

1874 - SEYMOUR BATTERY
OF GARRISON ARTILLERY
1910 - 104TH WESTMINSTER
FUSILIERS OF CANADA
1916 - 131ST BATTALION
CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
1967 - THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER
REGIMENT

COMMEMORATING 125 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE COUNTY OF WESTMINSTER
AND THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,
AND WITH DISTINCTION IN TWO WORLD WARS

TO THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE OFFICERS,
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,
AND MEN OF THE REGIMENT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN TWO WORLD WARS
16TH
BATTALION, C.E.F.
(THE CANADIAN
SCOTTISH)
1914-1918

1ST BN.
THE CANADIAN
SCOTTISH
REGIMENT
1939-1945

KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

THOSE WHOM THIS SCROLL
COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED
AMONG THOSE WHO, AT THE CALL
OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL
THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM,
ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER,
AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF
THE 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 THESE NAMES
BE NOT FORGOTTEN.
27,000 CANADIANS SERVED IN KOREA
516 CANADIANS WERE KILLED IN KOREA

[individual plaques/plaques individuelles]
SK14633 SGT. CURRIE, CLARENCE JOHN
WEST BANK

K800191 PTE GILLAN, JOHN ROBERT
VICTORIA

SK14832 TPR GRAY, KENNETH ALLEN
VANCOUVER

SK12663 CPL HASTINGS, DONALD PERKINS
NORTH VANCOUVER

K80062 PTE LAPKA, WILLIAM
VANCOUVER

SK3529 PTE MacPHERSON, DONALD WILLIAM
VANCOUVER

SK14658 GNR MILLER, EDWARD
VANCOUVER

SK8468 L/BDR RICHARDS, CYRIL WILLIAM
VICTORIA

[individual plaques/plaques individuelles]
K800386 GNR RIDDLE, JACK FRASER
VANCOUVER

SB163871 PTE ROBERTS, LOUIS CHARLES
PENTICTON

SL109717 CPL SCHWENNEKER, MELVIN HUGH E.
VANCOUVER

K800311 PTE STRACHAN, WILLIAM LESLIE
KELOWNA

SK8220 TPR WALDNER, GORDON HARRY
BURNABY

K800213 SPR WATSON, LEONARD ARTHUR
VANCOUVER

K800117 PTE WYLIE, LLOYD KEITH
VANCOUVER

6164e A.B. LISKA, VINCE
VICTORIA

IN MEMORY OF
64 OFFICERS & 1335 N.C.O.’S AND MEN
OF THE 7TH BATTALION C.E.F.
(FIRST BRITISH COLUMBIA REGIMENT)
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR : 1914-1918
IN THE SERVICE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE 7TH BATTALION WHO RETURNED

TO THE
MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO
DIED FOR KING
AND COUNTRY
IN THE
GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945

[plaque on base/plaque sur base]

THIS TABLET IN MEMORY OF THE
BRITISH COLUMBIA INDIANS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
WORLD WARS 1914 1918 – 1939 1945
WAS ERECTED BY THE
B.C. INDIAN ARTS & WELFARE SOCIETY

[stone plaque/plaque de pierre]

WORLD’S TALLEST TOTEM POLE
127 FEET, 7 INCHES
CARVED BY
MUNGO MARTIN, DAVID MARTIN, HENRY HUNT
DEDICATED JULY 2, 1956

• PEROY B. SCURRAH
• MAYOR OF VICTORIA
• HON. RAY WILLISTON
• MINISTER OF EDUCATION

STUART KEATE
SPONSOR

RAISED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION THROUGH THE
VICTORIA DAILY TIMES

[stone plaque/plaque de pierre]

THE LEGEND OF THE TOTEM
"MEMENTO OF THE NATION'S INFANCY, SYMBOL OF A PROUD RACE, MONUMENT
TO A RARE NATIVE ART, PROOF OF A UNITED COMMUNITY INTEREST
AND THE PUREST FORM OF CANADIANA." (VICTORIA DAILY TIMES)

• THE ANCESTRAL FIGURES ON THE WORLD'S TALLEST
• TOTEM POLE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE GEE-EKSEM
• CLAN OF THE KWA-KIUTL TRIBE OF COAST INDIANS FROM
• FORT RUPERT, NEAR PORT HARDY, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
• BOTTOM FIGURE IS GEE-EKSEM, DECENDARY "FIRST MAN"
• OF THE TRIBE, SAID TO HAVE BEEN CREATED AT GOLD
• BEACH ON THE NORTH END OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.
•   
• GEE-EKSEM ONE DAY SAW A STRANGE SIGHT. A TOTEM
• POLE GRADUALLY ROSE OUT OF THE BEACH. ON THE
• POLE WERE ALL THE ANIMALS NOW CARVED ON THE
• POLE, EACH MAKING ITS OWN REGULAR CRY. THE
• BOTTOM FIGURE WAS THAT OF A MAN WHO SAID TO HIM,
• "THESE BE YOUR CRESTS TO BE DSIPLAYED BY YOU
• AND YOUR DESCENDANTS." THE POLE THEN DISAPPEARED.
• AT NO TIME DURING THE LONG HISTORY OF THE TRIBE
• HAVE ALL THE FIGURES BEEN DISPLAYED ON ONE POLE
• UNTIL THIS ONE WAS CARVED BY CHEIF MUNGO MARTIN
• AND HIS ASSOCIATES.
•   
• NEXT ABOVE GEE-EKSEM ON THE TOTEM POLE IS
• HOHOO THE CANNIBAL BIRD. NEXT IS MUKINOOKW THE
• KILLER WHALE, THEN KLE-AKIN THE SEA LION WITH
• THE BROWN BACK, KWIKW THE EAGLE, THE GREY
• COLOURED SEA OTTER WITH A HALIBUT IN HIS MOUTH, 
• GWOY-IM THE WHALE WITH A MAN ON HIS BACK, THE
• MOUTH BEING THE WHALE'S BLOW-HOLE WITH A
• MAN'S FACE AT THE TAIL, BOTH ADDED DECORATIONS.
•   
• THEN COMES T-SOW THE BEAVER WITH TWO PROM-
• INENT FRONT TEETH, LAK-TOTE-PIS, THE SERVANT-MAN OF
• GEE-EKSEM, THEN MIQUAT THE SEAL WITH THE SPOTTED
• BACK, ULI-GUN THE BLACK WOLF, AND HOSAGAMI
• GEE-EKSEM'S POTLATCH RECORD-KEEPER.
•   
• THE TWO MEN AT THE TOP ARE "FIRST MAN" OF OTHER
• CLANS OF THE TRIBE. LA-LOX-UNDYU, WHO WAS BORN A
• KOLUS, A MYTHICAL BIRD WHICH WAS COVERED WITH
• DOWN AND NEVER GREW FEATHERS, AND SINKLAH-EE,
• WHO WAS FIRST CREATED AS KLESELA, THE SUN.
•   
• THE CEDAR POLE WAS CARVED WITH ANTIVE ADZE
• AND KNIFE, TAKING SIX MONTHS FROM THE TIME IT
• WAS FELLED AT MUIR CREEK, UNTIL ERECTION IN 1956.
•   

SPELLING IS PHONETIC, TO GIVE THE APPROXIMATE
PRONUCIAITON.

[front/devant]
IN MEMORIAM
H.M.C.S. "GALIANO"
30. OCT. 1918
LIEUTENANT R.N.C.V.R. POPE, ROBERT MAYES
BOATSWAIN GILBERT, JOSEPH
CHIEF ARTIFICER ENGINEER GREENSHIELDS
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OPERATOR
NEARY, MICHAEL JOHN

[side/côté]
IN MEMORIAM
H.M.C.S. "GALIANO"
30. OCT. 1918
V.R. 5893 ABLE SEAMAN AITKIN, PETER
V.R. 7057 STOKER DOBBYN, MATTHEW
V.R. 1247 " HANBURY, CHARLES R.
V.R. 5284 ABLE SEAMAN JEWKES, ARTHUR L.
V.R. 5904 " " JONES, ALAN O.
V.R. 5921 " " KING, WILLIAM J.
V.R. 6733 STOKER MUSTY, GEORGE H.
V.R. 6159 ABLE SEAMAN ORANDO, AUSTIN R.
V.R. 6147 " " STAFFORD, WILLIAM J.
V.R. 6728 STOKER STIRRUP, HAROLD
V.R. 7020 " THERIAULT, WILLIAM G.
V.R. 974 " YOUNG, JOHN
V.R. 6194 ORDINARY SEAMAN MC GUFFIN, HUDSON J.
V.R. 6161 BOY MC LEOD, RODERICK
V.R. 6187 " NEWTON, ROY E.
V.R. 7016 “ PETERS, FREDK. G.
V.R. 6193 " WALLACE, WILLIAM

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IN MEMORIAM

H.M.S. “VICTORY”
V.R. 2943 ORDINARY SEAMAN
DODDS, GORDON 18 MAY 1917
V.R. 3003 STOKER
LANCASTER, JAMES 6 DEC. 1917
H.M.S. “PEMBROKE”
V.R. 3269 ORDINARY SEAMAN
JONES, WILLIAM JOHN 17 JUNE 1917
V.R. 3298 ORDINARY SEAMAN
WALKER, FRED K. HENRY 21 JULY 1917
H.M. SUBMARINE “H.10”
SUB-LIEUTENANT
MAITLAND-DOUGALL, W. McKAY 15 MARCH 1918

[side/côté]
IN MEMORIAM

H.M.C.S. “GALIANO”
30 OCT. 1918

H.M.C.S. “GALIANO”
30 OCT. 1918

V.R. 5725 CHIEF PETTY OFFICER VINNICOMBE , JAMES
V.R. 5723 ENGINE ROOM ARTIFICER EDMONDS, PETER W.
V.R. 6418 ENGINE ROOM ARTIFICER MERCER, HAROLD
V.R. 2713 ENGINE ROOM ARTIFICER WATSON, PHILIP ALEX
V.R. 6117 SHIP’S COOK BATE, GEORGE D.S.
V.R. 6318 LEADING STOKER KANEEN, THOMAS F.
V.R. 5654 LEADING STOKER PRICE, NOEL G.
V.R. 199 COOK REEVES, ALFRED JAS.
V.R. 4785 VICTLEG. PETTY OFFICER TABONE, MICHAEL
V.R. 5416 VICTLEG. PETTY OFFICER WILLIAMSON, GEORGE
V.R. 5046 LEADING STOKER WHITEWORTH, FREDK.
V.R. 5672 LEADING SEAMAN BENTLEY, WILLIAM JAS.
V.R. 5727 LEADING SEAMAN MUNROE, ALEX E. PAUL
V.R. 5016 LEADING SEAMAN MCLEAN, NEIL
V.R. 5344 LEADING SEAMAN POERE, EDWARD C.

THIS PLAQUE ERECTED BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION 800

(PACIFIC) WING AND THE AIR FORCE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING ON THIS BASE.

DURING WORLD WAR II THIS SITE WAS KNOWN AS “ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE

STATION PATRICIA BAY”. IT SERVED AS AN OPERATIONAL AND TRAINING FACILITY

FOR THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND OTHER ALLIED

FORCES

DEDICATED SEPT. 12, 1987.

CETTE PLAQUE A ÉTÉ ÉRIGÉE PAR LA DIV. 800 DE L’ASSOCIATION DE L’AVIATION

ROYALE DU CANADA ET L’ASS. DES OFFICIERS DE L’AVIATION DE L’ÎLE DE VANCOUVER,

À LA MÉMOIRE DE CEUX QUI ONT PERDU LEUR VIE PENDANT QU’ILS ÉTAIENT BASÉS

À CET ENDROIT.

DURANT LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE, CE LEIU ÉTAIT CONNU COMME LA

“BASE PATRICIA BAY DE L’AVIATION ROYALE DU CANADA”. CET ENDROIT SERVAIT DE

BASE OPÉRATIONNELLE ET D’ENTRAÎNEMENT POUR L’AVIATION ROYALE DU

CANADA POUR LA ROYAL AIR FORCE ET POUR D’AUTRES FORCES ARMÉES ALLIÉES

DÉDIÉE EN SEPT. 12, 1987

BAY STREET ARMOURY
LE MANÈGE MILITAIRE DE LA RUE BAY
CANADA
When constructed by the federal government in 1914-1915,
this armoury was one of the largest and most up-to-date in
the country. Its scale reflects the dramatic increase in
military participation following Canada’s strong performance
during the South African War, while the exuberant design
expresses the city’s long and enthusiastic support of the
volunteer militia. Its highly functional interior plan is
combined with an imposing exterior, reminiscent of a
medieval fortress. An important training and recruitment
centre, the Bay Street Armoury has served continuously
since the First World War.

Construit par le gouvernement fédéral en 1914-1915, ce
manège militaire était alors l’un des plus grands et des plus
modernes du pays. Sa taille reflète l’augmentation
spectaculaire de l’engagement militaire au lendemain de
l’importante participation du Canada à la guerre des Boers,
et son dessin exubérant traduit l’appui enthousiaste accorde
de longue date par la ville à la milice volontaire. Son plan
intérieur très fonctionnel s’allie à un extérieur imposant qui
rappelle une forteresse du Moyen Âge. Important centre de
formation et de recrutement, il sert de façon ininterrompue
depuis la Première Guerre mondiale.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada

Government of Canada - Gouvernement du Canada