Cumberland

 
Location:  City of Ottawa     N 45.517403   W -75.407419
2557 Old Montreal Rd, beside St. Andrews United Church
 

Cumberland was a township in Eastern Ontario as part of Russell County from 1800 to 1999.  It comprised of Cumberland Village, Notre Dame-des-Champs, Sarsfield, Vars, Carlsbad Spring and Navan. Cumberland, who took its name from the Duke of Cumberland (later king of Hanover) and became the City of Cumberland in 1999, until amalgamation with Ottawa in 2001.  A very picturesque village situated along the banks of the historic Ottawa River.

 

This  statue is standing beside a scroll and bordered by 4 posts is on the front left of St-Andrews United Church.

When I look at the statue, I noticed that she is holding a wreath of poppies in her right hand and is looking down in sorrow as if ready to throw the wreath into the dug up grave of a lost loved one. Perhaps this is the significance of the 4 posts. ( If you had noticed it of old graves, many family plots had 4 posts around the plot and had chains connected to the posts. In the old days, it was the family who was responsible  of maintaining the plot.

The names of those lost in the World Wars and Korea are engraved in the stone for all to see, to remember for all eternity.  Lest We Forget.

**Special thanks once again to Louise Bellec for the photos and details.

 

Marker text:

Scroll:

 1914 -1918

            CHARLES H. McKENZIE

            CRESWELL J. ALLAN

            ROBERT LESLIE TAYLOR

            PETER J. McLAREN

            WILLIAM J. SPRATT

            JOHN A. McKENZIE

            THOMAS FOYE

              1939 - 1945

             CARLETON G. KENNEDY

             WILLIAM H. LOUGH

     

    Bottom of scroll : 

 THEIR NAMES

 LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

Below the scroll: 

ROBERT VICTOR ARNOTT

1950 KOREA 1953

Pedestral: 

 PUBLIC MEMORIAL

             ERECTED TO THE MEMORY AND HONOR OF THE
             CITIZEN SOLDIERS OF CUMBERLAND WHOSE
              NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HERE ON AND WHO GAVE

              THEIR LIVES FOR US IN THE GREAT WAR OF

                                       1914 - 1918