Marathon

 

Location:  Thunder Bay District     N 48.71786   N -86.37878

On Peninsula Road, across the street from the Recreation Centre/Arena, in the Canadian Tire parking lot.

 

This monument, located in Marathon Veterans Square, was installed on behalf of the local Royal Canadian Legion Branch 183 and the Town of Marathon.  The main feature of the memorial is a LAVIII Light Armoured Vehicle supplied by Canada Company.  Beside the LAV is a white cross memorial on a fieldstone base.  Two black marble plaques are positioned beside the LAV, one which lists the local soldiers who served in Afghanistan and one which lists the sponsors of this project.  There is also a plaque fixed to the side of the vehicle which briefly describes the Afghan mission.

At the time of my visit, this seemed to be strictly an Afghanistan memorial, although the same location is listed as the site of the town cenotaph which previously displayed a plaque honouring those who served in the World Wars.  It is my hope that the town has re-installed this plaque at the same park and that it was simply "in progress" during my visit.  I found the location of the park to be very odd, in the corner of a large retail parking lot, although we should not overlook the generous donation of the land to make this memorial possible.

 

 

Marker text:

LAV plaque:

"In recognition and memory of the efforts of approximately 

40,000 Canadian Armed Forces personnel who served and 

the 162 Canadians who died in the cause of bringing peace 

and freedom to the people of Afghanistan"   

Canada Company

 

 

 

 

Soldiers plaque:

AFGHANISTAN

2001 - 2014

SERVICE RECOGNITION

OMER LAVOIE   LCOL

MICHAEL HAMILTON   WO

LEWIS LAVOIE   MWO

RICHARD COOPER   WO

ROBERT WILSON   MCPL

NICHOLAS RAYNER   MCPL

TYLER RAYNER   CPL

GARY MARONESE    MCPL

JASON PORTEOUS    MAJ

KEVIN MILLER   CAPT

TANYA WOITO   CPL

CHRISTOPHER HEADGE   CPL

MATTHEW HYSHKA   TPR

KEITH LEFORT   CPL

JAMIE JACOBS   TPR

ISEAK BOUCHER   CPL

CIVILIANS

MICK VINCENT

LLOYD BRYAR

HEIDI ARTHUR

 

Base of cross:

COMRADE

DYER 

AND 

CREW

 

Oshweken

 

Location:  Brant County     N 43.06906   W -80.11822

In the park at the corner of Chiefswood Road and the Fourth Line.

Oshweken is a rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River Native Reserve.  It is the site of the reserve's governmental and administrative offices.  This is the largest community within the reserve, one of the most successful and prosperous native reserves in Canada.  The people of this community have a long and proud history, some of which is celebrated and remembered here in the Six Nations Veterans Memorial Park.

The cenotaph honours the names of the members of the Six Nations and Mississauga Indians who lost their lives fighting for our country.  It also lists several of the main wars and battles in which they paid the ultimate price.  Within the park are also historical plaques which tell the story of some of the local history, a cannon presumed to be from the War of 1812, and several benches for the visitor to take their time to rest and reflect on the past.  The park truly has a feel of Remembrance that can only be explained by visiting and closing your eyes while in deep thought of the history of this place and its people.

 

 

Marker text:

Park stone:

Front:

SIX NATIONS

VETERANS

MEMORIAL PARK

LEST WE FORGET

Back:

"THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT

GROW OLD;  AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS

CONDEMN.  AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE 

MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."

 

 

Cenotaph:

Front:

LT. BRANT CAMERON D.        LT. MOSES JAMES D.

AARON WILLIAM                     LOTTRIDGE WELBY

CLAUS ISSAC                             MARTIN WALTER

CURLEY LLOYD                        MILLER HURON S.

FISH REUBEN                             MONTOUR WILLIAM

GARLOW JAMES                        NEWHOUSE HENRY

GOOSEY DAVID                          PETERS ALEX

GROAT SAMUEL B.                    SANDY ADAM

HILL HIRAM                                SMITH WILLIAM

HILL ROY                                     STAATS FRANK

HOMER HARRISON                    THOMAS CHARLES

ISAAC FRANK                              TOBICOE MAXWELL

ISAAC JACOB                               VANEVERY FRED

JAMIESON ARTHUR                    VYCE JAMES

JOHN PAUL                                    WALKER FRANK

JOHNSON JAMES W.                    WILSON JOHN

JOHNSON PERCY                          WILSON JAMES

LICKERS ROY                                WILSON SIMON

LICKERS THOMAS                        WILSON LOUIS

LICKERS WILLIAM                        YELLOW NEWTON

                     JOHNSON WILLIAM H.

1914 - 1918

 

Right side:

HILL 70

PASSCHENDAELE

AMIENS

ARRAS

MONS

IN MEMORY OF 

THOSE WHO SERVED

AND DIED IN THE

KOREAN CONFLICT

1950 - 1953

 

 

Back:

DIEPPE     SICILY     ITALY

NORTH-WEST EUROPE

 

ERNEST C. BRADLEY              MAXWELL J. KING

WILFRED H. BRADLEY            LAWRENCE A. LAFORME

JACOB S. BRANT                       WALTER H. LEWIS

ELWOOD M. BURNHAM           FRANCIS MARACLE

LESLIE J. CAPTON                     FRANNLYN MARTIN

JOSEPH E. HENRY                      WILFRED OBEDIAH

NORMAN W. HENRY                  WELBY L. PATTERSON

GEORGE L. HILL                         RANDALL A. POWLESS

HAROLD JAMIESON                  HURON L. SMITH

DAVID E. JOHN                           WILLIAM G. SMITH

ERNEST A. JONATHAN              ROY H. WILLIAMS

GA-YO-DEN-SE-RA                     YAH-TEN-O-WEN-NA

Erected to the memory of the members of

The Six Nations and Mississauga Indians

who fell in the Great War and to those who served.

1939 - 1945

 

 

Left side:

YPRES

FESTUBERT

GIVENCHY

SOMME

VIMY RIDGE

 

IN MEMORY OF

THOSE WHO SERVED

AND DIED IN THE 

VIETNAM CONFLICT

1960 - 1975

 

 

 

 

Historic Plaque:

THE SIX NATIONS

COMMEMORATING THE LOYAL

SERVICES AND UNSWERVING FI-

DELITY OF THE SIX NATIONS OF

IROQUOIS INDIANS TO THE BRITISH

EMPIRE IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR,

THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN REV-

OLUTION, AND IN THE DEFENCE

OF UPPER CANADA IN 1812-14

AND 1837-38.

(Repeated in French)

ERECTED IN 1934

 

Lyndhurst

 

Location:  United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

N 44.53407   W -76.14676

In front of the Legion, 306 Lyndhurst Road.

 

 

Lyndhurst came into being with the building by Wallis Sunderlin, a Vermont founderer, in 1801, of Ontario's first successful iron smelter. The location of the ironworks became known as Furnace Falls. The iron works consisted of both a furnace for the production of cast iron and a forge for the manufacture of wrought iron. The iron works were destroyed by fire in 1811 and attempts to revive the smelter failed, and the site was essentially abandoned. However the building of a grist mill by Charles and Jonas Jones in 1828 created a revival of the village. In 1851 the village was renamed Lyndhurst, after John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst.

Lyndhurst is home to the oldest bridge in existence in Ontario. The stone masonry constructed three span bridge, built in 1856-57, is still in regular use today. In 1986 it was structurally re-enforced with concrete with the exterior restored to its original appearance.  Several Ontario Historic Plaques are located throughout this small but pretty rural village.

This memorial is a tall red granite shaft, located in front of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 504.  Engraved on the stone are the names of the brave men of this community who gave their lives during the World Wars.

Photos taken by Louise Bellec.

Marker text:

Side 1 (with crossed firearms)

LEONARD JAMES McCONNELL

HAROLD GEORGE YOUNG

SAMUEL BENJAMIN GREEN

CLARENCE GARFIELD MAINSE

JAMES WILLIAM EDGERS

JOHN HYNDE

SAMUEL ARTHUR GREENHAM

LEST WE FORGET

1914

1918

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIDE 2:

WORLD WAR I

GAILLARD LISQUM

 

 

 

Side 3:

WORLD WAR II

J. GORDON BROWN
ALFRED C. DEAN

DOUGLAS H. FRYE

HUBERT McPHERSON

DANIEL E. PERRIN

NELSON R. PERRY

HILBERT L. SLY

G. OSBORNE TEDFORD

LAWRENCE A. WILLIAMS

ARTHUR L. WARREN

ERIC A. WILLIS

 

KOREAN WAR 

1950 - 1953

 

 

 

Side 4:

WORLD WAR II

GORDENIER WARNER

WILLIAM HARRIS