Manitoulin District Cenotaph

 
 
Location:  Manitoulin Island     N 45 42.782   W 82 14.778
At the corner of Highway 551 and Monument Road.
 

This memorial is part of a larger complex known as Memorial Corners, consisting of several memorials, including the Manitoulin District Cenotaph, the Merchant Navy Memorial and the Manitoulin Women’s Memorial.   The grounds are tastefully laid out with room for parking, picnic tables and pathways to each memorial.

The Manitoulin District Cenotaph was originally unveiled in September 1921, consisting of a statue on top of a black granite stele, with the names of four local men lost in the Great War, and later the names of four more men lost in the Second World War.  Sadly, this memorial was destroyed in the early 1960’s in an automobile accident.

In 1994, a new cenotaph was unveiled, using the remains of the original monument and featuring the names of 128 fallen men from the local communities and seven Native Reserves.  The legion branches in Little Current and Gore Bay where the driving force behind the new cenotaph, and along with land donated for the project by George White and Bert Hill, the communities of Manitoulin Island have a memorial to be proud of.  Recent upgrades to the cenotaph have been completed, making it even more appealing and respectful to all those whose names appear on these memorials.

See this link for further details:  https://www.cdli.ca/monuments/on/manitou.htm

 

Marker text:

MANITOULIN DISTRICT CENOTAPH

(Legion Crest)

177 LITTLE CURRENT

514 GORE BAY

NAVY     ARMY     AIR FORCE

“HONOUR LIBERTY THAT

THEY NOT DIE IN VAIN”

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW

BETWEEN THE CROSSES, ROW ON ROW

THAT MARK OUR PLACE;  AND IN THE SKY

THE LARKS, STILL BRAVELY SINGING, FLY

SCARCE HEARD AMID THE GUNS BELOW.

WE ARE THE DEAD, SHORT DAYS AGO

WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW,

LOVED AND WERE LOVED, AND NOW WE LIE

IN FLANDERS FIELDS.

TAKE UP THE QUARREL WITH THE FOE;

TO YOU FROM FAILING HANDS WE THROW

THE TORCH; BE YOURS TO HOLD IT HIGH,

IF YE BREAK FAITH WITH US WHO DIE

WE SHALL NOT SLEEP, THOUGH POPPIES GROW

IN FLANDERS FIELDS.

LT. COL. JOHN McCRAE

TOWNS

GORE BAY

LITTLE CURRENT

ANISHINABEK FIRST NATIONS

COCKBURN ISLAND

SHESHEGWANING

SHEGUIANDAH

SUCKER CREEK

WEST BAY

WHITEFISH RIVER

WIKWEMIKONG

TOWNSHIPS

ALLAN

ASSIGINACK

BARRIE ISLAND

BIDWELL

BILLINGS

BURPEE

CAMPBELL

CARLYLE

CARNARVON

COCKBURN ISLAND

DAWSON

GORDON

HOWLAND

HUMBOLDT

KILLARNEY

MILLS

ROBINSON

RUTHERFORD AND

GEORGE ISLAND

SANDFIELD

SHEGUIANDAH

TEHKUMMAH

WE KNOW THE VALUE OF FREEDOM WHEN WE KNOW THE COSTS

LEST WE FORGET

DEDICATED JUNE 5^th 1994

Wall:

MANITOULIN DISTRICT CENOTAPH

THIS SYMBOL OF FREEDOM IS DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN

HONOUR OF THOSE WHOSE SACRIFICE WAS FULL, FINAL AND EVERLASTING.

OUR MEMORIES OF THEM WILL BE FOREVER TREASURED IN ETERNAL

GRATITUDE FOR THEIR GIFT OF LIBERTY, PEACE AND PRIVILEGE.

WORLD WAR I     1914 – 1918

Joseph Adams
 Anwatin
Alexander L. Ballantyne
Benjamin Ballantyne
George Baxter

Harry Beatty
Lawrence Beatty
Percy Beck
Sam Blackburn
Austin W. Blackie
Ernest J. Blackie
Lorne Bradley
Harry W. Brown
Michael Cada
Norman Campbell
William Carr
Isban A. Clark
George W. Collins
Edwin E. Cook
John Cowan
John D. Currie

Jack Elliot
Joseph Enosse
F. Walter Farthing
Amerod Ferguson
Blair Frazer
Joseph C. Gallagher
R. Joseph Good
Augustus Hartung
Victor Hewson
Robert R. Hill
Charles Holmes
Wilfred J. Holmes
John Hughson
Robert Hunter
William Jackman
Alexander G. Jeffery

Edgar Kent
Frank Lavallee
John E. Leach
John Maguire
Harvey C. Marshall
Dave Matheson
John McDonald
John McKeddy
John McMillan
James Merrilees
Ernest Minors
Nelson Minors
Vincent Misinishkotewe
Thomas Moore
Louis J. Norton
Eli Louis Niganiwah

Thomas Niganiwina
Frank Nighswander
James T. Pattison
Andrew Peltier
Percy Pifer
Franklin Proulx
James A. Raynor
W. Leslie Riching
William Rousseau
Lorne Rumley
Lawrence Russell
Clarence Rush
Leslie Scott

William Scott
Colin D. Sims
James F. Valliquette

Michael Wabanosse
Lorne Walker
William Wickett
Arlif R. Wilkin
Alden Wilkinson
Robert Willet
Valentine Wilman
Nelson Young

Joseph Baker

WORLD WAR II     1939 – 1945

Gilbert Alexander
Keith Beange
Kenneth Buck
Les Campbell
Aubrey Chalmers
Richard J. Clark
Dominic Corbiere
Everett Coulter
Hubert Coulter
John A. Eadie
Ivan Falls
Lloyd Fowler
William Fowler

Alphonse Gaiashk
Fredrick G. Green
John C. Halcrow
J. Lloyd Hall
Morland L. Hembruff
Steve R.G. Hilson
James S. Howard
Eric C. Hughson
J. Mac Johnson
Leonard Lehman
Norman F. Lockeyer
Henry Mandamin
Alponse Manitowabi (Korea)
Russell McCraken
Theodore McGregor
Armand McMillian

Leonard Mumford
Charles Nahwegezhic
Roland Nahwegezhic
L. W. Orford
John Ozaomik
Alfred Pitawanakwat
Burt Rogue
Frank Rowe
Wilbert Rowe
Ernest Sagle
Isaac Shawanda
Robert Smeltzer
Russell Stringer
Zoey Trudeau
Lyle Van Horn
Douglas M. Wagg

Clarence Wakegijic
Douglas Weeks
Felix Wemigwans
A. Floyd Williamson
Albert J. Williamson
Douglas Wright