Oshweken

 

Location:  Brant County     N 43.06906   W -80.11822

In the park at the corner of Chiefswood Road and the Fourth Line.

Oshweken is a rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River Native Reserve.  It is the site of the reserve's governmental and administrative offices.  This is the largest community within the reserve, one of the most successful and prosperous native reserves in Canada.  The people of this community have a long and proud history, some of which is celebrated and remembered here in the Six Nations Veterans Memorial Park.

The cenotaph honours the names of the members of the Six Nations and Mississauga Indians who lost their lives fighting for our country.  It also lists several of the main wars and battles in which they paid the ultimate price.  Within the park are also historical plaques which tell the story of some of the local history, a cannon presumed to be from the War of 1812, and several benches for the visitor to take their time to rest and reflect on the past.  The park truly has a feel of Remembrance that can only be explained by visiting and closing your eyes while in deep thought of the history of this place and its people.

 

 

Marker text:

Park stone:

Front:

SIX NATIONS

VETERANS

MEMORIAL PARK

LEST WE FORGET

Back:

"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."

 

 

Cenotaph:

Front:

LT. BRANT CAMERON D.        LT. MOSES JAMES D.

AARON WILLIAM                     LOTTRIDGE WELBY

CLAUS ISSAC                             MARTIN WALTER

CURLEY LLOYD                        MILLER HURON S.

FISH REUBEN                             MONTOUR WILLIAM

GARLOW JAMES                        NEWHOUSE HENRY

GOOSEY DAVID                          PETERS ALEX

GROAT SAMUEL B.                    SANDY ADAM

HILL HIRAM                                SMITH WILLIAM

HILL ROY                                     STAATS FRANK

HOMER HARRISON                    THOMAS CHARLES

ISAAC FRANK                              TOBICOE MAXWELL

ISAAC JACOB                               VANEVERY FRED

JAMIESON ARTHUR                    VYCE JAMES

JOHN PAUL                                    WALKER FRANK

JOHNSON JAMES W.                    WILSON JOHN

JOHNSON PERCY                          WILSON JAMES

LICKERS ROY                                WILSON SIMON

LICKERS THOMAS                        WILSON LOUIS

LICKERS WILLIAM                        YELLOW NEWTON

                     JOHNSON WILLIAM H.

1914 - 1918

 

Right side:

HILL 70

PASSCHENDAELE

AMIENS

ARRAS

MONS

IN MEMORY OF 

THOSE WHO SERVED

AND DIED IN THE

KOREAN CONFLICT

1950 - 1953

 

 

Back:

DIEPPE     SICILY     ITALY

NORTH-WEST EUROPE

 

ERNEST C. BRADLEY              MAXWELL J. KING

WILFRED H. BRADLEY            LAWRENCE A. LAFORME

JACOB S. BRANT                       WALTER H. LEWIS

ELWOOD M. BURNHAM           FRANCIS MARACLE

LESLIE J. CAPTON                     FRANNLYN MARTIN

JOSEPH E. HENRY                      WILFRED OBEDIAH

NORMAN W. HENRY                  WELBY L. PATTERSON

GEORGE L. HILL                         RANDALL A. POWLESS

HAROLD JAMIESON                  HURON L. SMITH

DAVID E. JOHN                           WILLIAM G. SMITH

ERNEST A. JONATHAN              ROY H. WILLIAMS

GA-YO-DEN-SE-RA                     YAH-TEN-O-WEN-NA

Erected to the memory of the members of

The Six Nations and Mississauga Indians

who fell in the Great War and to those who served.

1939 - 1945

 

 

Left side:

YPRES

FESTUBERT

GIVENCHY

SOMME

VIMY RIDGE

 

IN MEMORY OF

THOSE WHO SERVED

AND DIED IN THE 

VIETNAM CONFLICT

1960 - 1975

 

 

 

 

Historic Plaque:

THE SIX NATIONS

COMMEMORATING THE LOYAL

SERVICES AND UNSWERVING FI-

DELITY OF THE SIX NATIONS OF

IROQUOIS INDIANS TO THE BRITISH

EMPIRE IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR,

THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN REV-

OLUTION, AND IN THE DEFENCE

OF UPPER CANADA IN 1812-14

AND 1837-38.

(Repeated in French)

ERECTED IN 1934