Mattawa

 

 

Location:  Nipissing District     N 46.31870   W -78.70629

In Veterans Memorial Park on the east side of the Mattawa River, 193 Water Street.

 

This monument was erected by the local Women's Institute shortly after the First World War.  The names of the dead from that horrific war are permanently engraved on the back of the granite stone.  After the Second World War and Korea, more names were sadly added to the side of the monument.  Several major battles of the Great War are listed on the base, and a statue of a soldier stands proudly at ease over the names of his fallen brothers.  The memorial is found in Veterans Memorial Park, near the junction of the historic Mattawa River and the mighty Ottawa River.  This area is rich in the early history of the fur trade and the importance of these two powerful rivers.

Marker text:

Front:

1914 - 1918

TO PERPETUATE

THE NAMES OF OUR HONOURED DEAD

AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON IN

THE GREAT WAR

FROM THE TOWN OF

MATTAWA AND DISTRICT

ERECTED BY THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE

SOMME     COURCELETTE     VIMY RIDGE

 

Right side:

1939 - 1945

G. MEILLEUR

A. LATOUR

H. JOCKO

W. GREEN

R. LACELLE

T. McISAAC

R. DECLAIRE

E. BLAKE

H. NICHOLS

E. MORIN

L. TOIVONEN

E. LAMIRANTE

 

PASSCHENDAELE     MONS

 

 

 

 

Back:

OUR HONOURED DEAD

DAVID ANTOINE            ARTHUR SEGUIN

HENRI NADON                WILLIAM FORBES

FRANCIS SIKORSKI        ARTHUR DUQUETTE

ROBERT J. MOORE          ALBERT G. GATES

WILLIAM A. MORRIS      ALEXANDER TENNISCO

JOSEPH CARON                MAXIM DONNIE

HARRY DESORMEAU     FELIX LACOMBE

GEORGE LECLAIRE        BARNABA DEROCHIE

IRVINE RIELLY                HENRY SOUCIE

JAMES CLEMENT            ALBERT NADON

JAMES PAUL                     EARL WALLS

EUGENE ST. DENIS          CLIFFORD BEAUDIEN

LAWRENCE EDMONDS   JOSEPH DESORMEAU

ALBERT LARONDE

SAMUEL DECAIRE           LESLIE McCONNELL

ERIC McCONNELL            SAMUEL H. RICHARDSON

JAMES THERRIEN             PATRICK O'HARA

HILLIARD McLEOD

YPRES     ARRAS     VALENCIENNES

 

Left side:

1939 - 1945

J. RIBOUT

J. CHARRON

M. O'CONNOR

G. LECLAIRE

H. MILLEN

H. DEAN

E. FREVE M.M.

P. JONES

J. CHAPMAN

O. O'GRADY

R. LALONDE

B. ADAMS

J. POMMERELLE

AMIENS     CAMBRAI