Walkerton Cemetery

 
Location:  Bruce County   N 44 06.875  W 081 08.669
In the cemetery, at the corner of Highways 9 and 4, at the south entrance into town.

This stone cairn was erected in the 1960's by the Royal Canadian Legion, to pay tribute to those who served in the two World Wars, buried here and in cemeteries around the world.  Markers surrounding the cairn give the names of those buried in the Walkerton Cemetery.




Marker text:
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
KING AND COUNTRY
AND REST IN
FOREIGN FIELDS
OR AT HOME.
ERECTED BY COMRADES
CANADIAN LEGION B.E.S.L.

1914-18 1939-45

"TAKE UP THE TORCH
OR WE DIED IN VAIN."