Mildmay

 
Location:  Bruce County   N 44 02.509  W 081 07.163
On the south side of Absalom Street West, just east of Elora Street.

This memorial remembers the men of Mildmay and Carrick who gave their lives in the World Wars and Korea.  Originally erected with a single granite stele shortly after the Great War, the park was largely renovated in 1951 and two more granite steles added to honour those who died in the Second World War.  At that time the sidewalk, drinking fountain and landscaping where added to create the pleasant memorial park which we share today.


Marker text:
Centre stele:
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF CARRICK AND MILDMAY
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

"THE GLORIOUS DEAD"
NORMAN ERNEWEIN
CLIFFORD HESCH
STEPHEN HICKLING
GORDON HOGG
NORMAN KAUFMAN
RICHARD KEATING
RAYMOND KEELAN
TYRWHITT KIDD
WILLIAM MACKAY
DANIEL McPHAIL
BERTRAM PATTEN
CLARENCE SEILING
HARRY SCHMIDT

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE

Brass plaque:
YPRES  SOMME
VIMY  PASSCHENDAELE
ARRAS  AMIENS
CAMBRAI  MONS
 

Left stele:
1939 - 1945

ALBERT BUHLMAN
ALBERT DICKISON
REUBEN FILSINGER
CARL GRUBB
WILLIAM HAEBERLE
EDWARD KUTZ
LAVERNE KOENIG
 

Right stele:
1939 - 1945
ARTHUR MEYER
VICTOR MEYER
JOHN MEYERS
ANDREW SCHMIDT
ALPHONSE STEFFLER
CHARLES WINTERS
LEONARD HERBERT

KOREA
1950 - 1953
 

Port Carling

Location:  Muskoka Region   N 45 06.947  W 079 34.608
At the entrance to the Port Carling Memorial Centre, 3 Bailey Street.
 

This granite memorial was erected on June 16th 2001, by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 529, which is located across the road from the Memorial Centre.  No names are listed, only the major wars of the twentieth century.

Marker text:
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
BRANCH 529
WW I    WW 2    KOREA

LEST WE FORGET

CFB Trenton - Camp Mirage Monument

Location:  Hastings County,  Located inside the National Air Force Museum at CFB Trenton.



This date, March 12 2014, will live in history as the final day of Canada's mission in war-torn Afghanistan.  Given the significance of the day and the history that has been made by our forces in Asia, it is only fitting to highlight this monument, which once stood at Camp Mirage, the main military base in Southeast Asia.  All of our brave soldiers who died in Afghanistan and were repatriated back to their homeland, passed through Camp Mirage. 

The monument stood at the Camp from 2006 until its closing in late 2010.  The cairn is a three-part pyramid style structure made of granite.  The names of each and every repatriated soldier is remembered on this monument in the form of a brass plaque.

The Camp Mirage monument was itself repatriated here, to CFB Trenton and a place of honour inside the National Air Force Museum, in July of 2011.  The unveiling ceremony hosted many high ranking dignitaries including National Defence Minister Peter McKay.  "It's a powerful symbol that honours Canada's fallen sons and daughters that are often referred to as Canada's greatest citizens." said McKay.

"It is fitting that the Camp Mirage Monument is finally here in Trenton on the same route that all of these personnel take when going home."  said McKay.

 

“It’s a powerful symbol that honours Canada’s fallen sons and daughters that are often referred to as Canada’s greatest citizens,” said MacKay - See more at: http://www.qnetnews.ca/?p=10399#sthash.zbRzmn8G.dpuf

“It’s a powerful symbol that honours Canada’s fallen sons and daughters that are often referred to as Canada’s greatest citizens,” said MacKay - See more at: http://www.qnetnews.ca/?p=10399#sthash.zbRzmn8G.dpuf

Richmond Hill

 
 

Location:  York Region   N 43 52.421  W 079 26.260
On the west side of Yonge Street, south of Arnold Crescent.  In front of the old Richmond Hill Public School.
 

The village of Richmond Hill first erected this impressive memorial in 1923, in honour of those who died and served in the Great War.  It was later expanded to include those lost in the Second World War, and once again restored in 1994.  The main part of the memorial is a large colonnade with the inscriptions of those lost, the second part is a pentagonal shaft with the names of those who fought and returned.  A garden of tulips is found immediately behind the memorial, which adds a colourful beauty to this already outstanding cenotaph of remembrance.
 

Marker text:
Colonade:
1914   TO THE MEMORY AND IN HONOR OF THE MEN OF RICHMOND HILL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR  1918

JACK BERESFORD
FRED CARTER

JACK COLLIN
ERNEST GOODE

DONALD GRAHAM
FRED GREENE

S. McMAHON
VERNON MITCHELL

GEORGE HAWKES
JAMES LEY

ROY RUSSELL
JOHN SLOAN

ERNEST WHITE
ERIC WILSON

ARTHUR C. COOPER
C. CLELAND CALDWELL
WILLIAM CASE
EARLE HUGHES
WELLINGTON C. MONKMAN
HAROLD ROWLEY
 
 


 Shaft:
 TO THE MEN WHO NOBLY SERVED AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD WHOSE LIVES WERE SPARED

THESE MEMORIALS
ERECTED BY THE
CITIZENS OF
RICHMOND HILL
IN THE YEAR
AD. 1923

CHAS. McWILLMOT
ARCHITECT
TORONTO

ATKINSON W.D.
ATKINSON R.W.
AIKENHEAD J.A.
BASSETT W.
COWIE C.H.
FISHER W.
FROUD F.
DUNLOP F.M.

GLOVER C.E.
HALL W.
HILL C.E.
HILL L.A.
HUNT J.G.
HUNT L.S.
MAFFEY A.W.

MANSER W.
McCONAGHY R.
METCALF V.H.
MILLS H.J.
ORMEROD F.
PALMER E.D.
PALMER H.H.

POLLARD J.
RANSOM B.
RILEY E.R.
SANDERS S.J.D.
SLOAN G.H.
STALLIBRASS J.
TEETZEL L.B.

TRACY Y.B.
VANDERBURGH W.A.
WALDER L.C.
WELLWOOD M.B.
WELLWOOD G.R.
WILEY G.A.
WRIGHT C.V.
 


Brass plaque:
AUGUST 9, 1998
TO COMMEMORATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE CENOTAPH
AND TO HONOUR THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING
THE KOREAN WAR AND VARIOUS PEACEKEEPING
ACTIVITIES
 

Haliburton

 

Location:  Haliburton County   N 45 02.742  W 078 30.684
On the north side of Highland Street, at the triangular corner of York Street.

The memorial in the village of Haliburton is found downtown on a widened part of the sidewalk.  A very attractive and unique memorial, a tall stylized stone with a brass rifle and helmet adorn the front, while a brass plaque bearing the names of the men lost appears on the back.
Nearby the memorial are found a captured German machine-gun and a mortar, both of World War I vintage.  A bench along the walkway provides a chance to rest and remember, or take in a pleasant view of the lakefront below.
 


Marker text:
Front:
ERECTED TO
OUR HONOURED DEAD
AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
BY THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS OF HALIBURTON
 



Rear:
HONOUR ROLL

1914-1918
BENJAMIN BIRD
RICHARD GREGORY
GEORGE LOGAN
ARTHUR BISHOP
RUSSELL S. CURRY
WILLIAM CARNOCHAN
DONALD WATT
JOSEPH HOWE

1939-1945
ROSS DAVIDSON
WALTER ALBERT WINN
ARTHUR CARNOCHAN
MAX McCRACKEN
ELZIE HENDERSON
JACK ANDERSON
RUSSELL LARUE
LYLE BOICE
JAMES NICHOLLS
LYLE HORSLEY
DONALD PASQUINO
IRWIN HOWE