Renfrew

 


Location:  Renfrew County     N 45.473160    W  -76.685188

In front of the town hall, 127 Raglan St. S. (Highway 60)

 

The tall granite cenotaph in front of the town hall was a gift from Thomas Andrew Low, local entrepreneur, Member of Parliament and cabinet minister.  He originally paid to have the square turned into a park in 1918, then commissioned the cenotaph, which was dedicated in 1931, just months after his death.  A small plaque is dedicated to Low for his contribution to the town.  The Renfrew Great War Memorial was designed by Richard Hubert Millson & Cecil Burgess.

Originally it listed the men who died int he Great War and some of the key battles, later the names of those who died in WWII where added.

***Thanks you to Louise Bellec for the great photos.

 

Marker text:

Front:

1914-1918

YPRES

VIMY RIDGE

MONS

Middle part:

TO ALL
OUR
HONOURED

DEAD

"THEY SHALL NOT

GROW OLD,

AS WE THAT ARE LEFT

GROW OLD:

AGE SHALL NOT
WEARY THEM,

NOR THE YEARS
CONDEMN.

AT THE GOING DOWN

OF THE SUN AND IN

THE MORNING WE WILL
REMEMBER THEM."

 

 

On step:

GIFT OF

HON.  THOS A. LOW

 

 

Left Side:

1939 - 1945

REMEMBERING

THE MEN
OF THIS VICINITY

WHO DIED OVERSEAS

ROBERT A. BARR

HAROLD BARR
PATRICK BLIMKIE

JACK BOX

LOUIS BROWN
JAMES BROWN

ADRIAN J. BURWELL

EMERY CASTONGUAY

MILTON CHARBONNEAU

MERVYN CRAM

GLEN CROGIE

MICK DANYLUK

JEROME DOMINICO

ANTHONY DORZEK

WALLACE DUCHARME

HAROLD EADY

MICHAEL L. ENRIGHT

DONALD M. FROATS

G. GORDON FROATS

JOHN L. GAUTHIER

LLOYD GOODFELLOW

JOHN P. GRACE

ALLAN W. GUEST

RAYMOND HALE

DAVID R. HUNTER

WILLARD JAMIESON

JAMES A. DUNNE

THOMAS MULVIHILL

GARNET SCOBIE

 

Bottom:

KOREA

1950-1953

 

 

Back View:

1914

1918

SOMME

PASSCHENDAELE

AMIENS

 

 

(Top part of names)

REMEMBERING THE MEN OF THIS VICINITY

WHO DIED OVERSEAS

CAMERON MACKAY

LORNE V. FROOD

BOYD FROOD

FERGUSON BREMNER

MICHAEL A. BREMNER

MICHAEL NARLOCK

JOHN HASTINGS

NELSON DEMPSEY

SAMUEL DEMPSEY
GEORGE P. DUPUIS

JOHN TROY 

JAMES HARTY

WM. J. STEWART

ROBERT V. ANDERSON

ALFRED W. ANDERSON

DONALD BENNETT

GORDON HUGHES

ARTHUR TOMLINSON

GORDON H. MAIN

R. ROY AIRTH

DELPHISE LAPOINTE

PHILIP FREEMARK

WM. B. SCOTT

CLARENCE J. SIBARY

SAMUEL WIGHT

WILLIAM WIGHT

MACKIE B. MUIRHEAD

DOUGLAS MORROW

IAN MACKINNON

DUNCAN W. GRAHAM

JOHN LETERSKI

PETER CYBULSKI

ANTHONY CYBULSKI

JAMES B. LACEY

COLIN J. HICKEY

G. ALEX McLAREN

F.C. CARTER

FRANK McGOWAN

THOS. McGOWAN

JOSEPH R. DOYLE

THOS. HENRY CRUISE

RENE DESNOYERS

THOMAS DEGRAS

JOSEPH A. LAPLANTE

JOHN A. RYAN

(Bottom part)

CHARLES REID
DONALD McLEOD

SAMUEL T. WALKER

ARTHUR L. HENDRY

CHARLES L. PORTES

ALEX. SHIELDS

STANTON CLARK

C.J. LAVALEE

BERT BROWN

CLIFFORD BRISCOE

JOSEPH ST. DENIS

DANIEL MARRS

JAMES F. VALIQUETTE

GUY McINTYRE

BERNARD S. McINTYRE

FRANCIS McINTYRE
HARRY McINTYRE

G. CLIFFORD McARTHUR

ALLAN L. SMITH

WALTER W. SMITH

JOSEPH A. QUILTY

 

 

Right of cenotaph

1939 - 1945

REMEMBERING
THE MEN
OF THIS VICINITY
WHO DIED OVERSEAS

STEWART W. JOBSON
WILLIAM S. JOHNSTON
THOMAS R. JONES
HERB C. JORDAN

DUNCAN R. KIPPEN

FRED MEREDITH

GEORGE E. MILLAR

DANIEL J. MULVIHILL
ARTHUR McMAHON
ROY McNAB
EARL L. NICOL
HOWARD A. O'HARE
JAMES A. PHILLIPS
THOMAS PULCINE

HAROLD PUTINSKI

RAYMOND ROSE
EARL RICARD
LAWRENCE SCHWARTZ

LLOYD SCOTT
HAROLD SHEEHAN
MOODIE STEWART
HAMILTON R. STEWART

JOSEPH G. StLOUIS

ALFRED D. WADE

WARD WARREN
HECTOR WILSON

KEITH WILLIS

WILFRED R. GAGNON
ELLARD SEARSON

FRED McLEOD

 

Thomas Andrew Low Plaque:

THOMAS ANDREW LOW 1871 - 1931

TOM LOW CAME TO RENFREW IN 1889 A POOR

BOY. BY HARD WORK AND UNUSUAL FORESIGHT

HE HAD BY 1920 ORGANIZED FIVE FINANCIALLY

SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURING COMPANIES.  IN

1928 HE UNITED HIS COMPANIES TO FORM

RENFREW INDUSTRIES LIMITED. HARD HIT BY

THE DEPRESSION AND THE SUDDEN DEATH OF

TOM LOW IN 1931 THE INDUSTRIES WERE SOLD

BY THE SHAREHOLDERS AS SEPERATE COMPANIES

IN 1936.  THRICE ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT TOM

LOW WAS APPOINTED TO THE CABINET IN 1921

AND IN 1923 WAS MADE MINISTER OF TRADE

AND COMMERCE.  IN 1918 HE LANDSCAPED THE

TOWN PARK WHICH WAS THEN NAMED LOW

SQUARE.  IN IT HE BUILT THE CENOTAPH BEARING

THE NAMES OF RENFREW AND DISTRICT WAR

DEAD.