Location: Bruce County N 44 55.370 W 01.285
At the corner of Community Centre Road and Prairie Road, in front of the Community Centre.
This memorial pays honour to the brave soldiers of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nations, and proudly stands at the heart of their reserve on the shores of the Bruce Peninsula.
A statue of a WWI soldier stands on top of a granite stele which lists the names of the men from this area who died in the Great War. Two additional stele where added in 1999 to list the wars and conflicts of which soldiers from this community have served.
Marker text:
Centre:
1914 - 1918
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
BY THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS
OF CAPE CROKER
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF THOSE OF THE BAND
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
DANIEL ELLIOTT
JOSEPH ELLIOTT
ARCHIE D. JOHNSON
WILLIS KEESHIG
BARNEY KEESHIG
FRANK LAVALLEY Jr.
PAUL NADJIWON
JOSEPH SHAWON
ALEX TAYLOR
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE
Left:
WARS
1812-1814
1914-1918
1939-1945
KOREAN
1950-1953
DESERT STORM
1991
Right:
UN
PEACEKEEPERS
YEMEN
EGYPT
CONGO
CYPRUS
BOSNIA
NATO
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