Deloro

 
Location:  Hastings County     N 44.51002   W -77.623356
Corner of Deloro Road and O'Brien Street, in front of the community centre.
 
This is one of the most unique memorials in Ontario.  I stumbled across by accident while out exploring the backroads and did not realize the significance at the time.  This is a digital memorial, activated with your smartphone to play a video describing the history of the Deloro area and the role it played in the World Wars.  The memorial was unveiled to great fanfare in October 2015.

The black granite obelisk stands eleven feet tall and features the words Lest We Forget in several languages.  A series of six interpretive signs are placed around the memorial to give the history associated with the Deloro village and mine.  The mine was a critical source of stellite and cobalt used for all the munitions, ammunition equipment, precision instruments and medical equipment used by sailors, soldiers and airmen in both world wars. Deloro Mine materials were used in both the Spitfire and the Avro Arrow. In 1939, The Deloro Mine was awarded the contract to provide the stellite needed to build the Spitfire fighter, an airplane which was instrumental to Allied air campaigns against the Nazis in Europe.

The video produced for the memorial is found at this link:
https://deloromemorial.wixsite.com/canadawarmemorial

Photos and details of the opening of the memorial can be found here:
https://www.marmorahistory.ca/deloro-war-memorial

Market text:
LEST WE FORGET

THIS DIGITAL CENOTAPH
IS RAISED IN HONOUR
OF THE LOCAL MEN AND
WOMEN OF THE CANADIAN
ARMED FORCES.

THEY SERVED OUR
COUNTRY BRAVELY SO
THAT WE COULD BE FREE,
USING THE MATERIALS
MINED AND REFINED AT
THE DELORO MINE.