Rama

 

Location:  Simcoe County, Ramara   N 44° 38.911 W 079° 21.006  
Found beside the Rama United Church, on the west side of Rama Road (County Road 44), just north of the casino.

This memorial consist of two granite pillars.  The first gives the dedication to those who served, in Ojibway and English.  The second lists the conflicts and the names of those who served and who died.

Marker text:
First pillar front:
MIIGWECH.
KINA GIW GAA
DGWAAKIIJIG
PII GAA
MIIDAADING
WIDI GCHI
WAASWEKMIG.
GAAGNIG NGA
MKWENMAANAN.

Front pillar back:
THIS MONUMENT IS
DEDICATED TO THE
BRAVE RAMA MEN
AND WOMEN WHO
STEEPED FORWARD
WHEN OUR COUNTRY
WAS IN NEED AND
WERE PROUD TO
SERVE WITH
CANADIANS.  WE
ACKNOWLEDGE ALL
OUR VETERANS.  THOSE
WHO WERE LOST IN
CONFLICTS AND
WHOSE WHO WERE
ABLE TO RETURN HOME.
TOADY WE ENJOY
MANY FREEDOMS
BECAUSE OF THE
SACRIFICES YOU MADE.
WE WILL REMEMBER.
       MIIGWECH

Second pillar front: (Names marked with * died in the war.)
1939 - 1945
ANDERSON ALICE *
ANDERSON A. * 
ANDERSON H.
ANDERSON J.C.
AUSTIN T.M.H. *
BENSON E.I.
BENSON J. *
BLAKER E. *
COMEGO S.
DOUGLAS G.R.
DOUGLAS I.J. *
FAWN R.
FAWN Wm. *
HOPKINS LILLIAN
INGERSOLL L.
KING H. *
LAWRENCE E.
MARTELL Wm. Jr. *
MacDONALD A. *
MacDONALD S.
MARSDEN L.
NOGANOSH M.
SAWYER D.
SAWYER G.A.
SHILLING A.
SHILLING S. *
SIMCOE B. Jr. *
SIMCOE E.W. *
SIMCOE E.E.
SIMCOE G.
SIMCOE G.H.
SIMCOE M.R.
SIMCOE W.L.
ST. GERMAIN C. *
ST. GERMAIN J.
ST. GERMAIN L. *
SMITH F.
SMITH MYRTLE *
STILES C.M.
STILES L.C.
STINSON S. *
WILLIAMS L.
PAWIS G.

Second pillar left:
KOREA
SAWYER B. Jr.
SHILLING C.
CHARLES GEORGE L.

CYPRUS
INGERSOLL W.
SHARPE C.

ARMED FORCES
FAWN DAISY *

Second pillar back:
1914 - 1918
ANDERSON M. *
BENSON F. *
BENSON W. *
BIGWIN P. *
CHARLES H. *
DOUGLAS A.J. *
FAWN D. *
FAWN P. *
HOPKINS G. *
HOPKINS H. *
HOPKINS R. *
HOPKINS Wm. *
JACOBS J. *
MARTELL Wm. L. *
NANAGISHKUNG H. *
SAWYER B. Sr. *
SAWYER S. *
SHILLING A.L. *
SHILLING A. *
SHILLING C. *
SHILLING H. *
SHILLING J. *
SIMCOE B. *
SIMCOE W.
SIMCOE Wm. Sr. *
SNACHE E. *
SNACHE G. *
SNAKE N. *
ST. GERMAIN B. *
ST. GERMAIN J. 
ST. GERMAIN J. *
ST. GERMAIN O. *
STINSON A. *
STINSON J. *
STINSON R. *
WILLIAMS B.*
WILLIAMS L. *
YORK F. *
YORK I. *
YORK T. *

Second pillar right:
(deer's head carving)