Victory Square - View from Pender StreetIn the heart of downtown Vancouver you'll find a beautifully designed war memorial dedicated to the veterans of WWI. One of the more interesting design elements at this site is the helmet-shaped lamp posts.
"The war memorial in Vancouver is a gray granite obelisk, thirty feet high, at the foot of a gentle slope in a small park, Victory Square, on nine-tenths of an acre of green lawn, with ornamental trees and flower beds.
There are three sides to the monument, with the following engraved inscriptions:
Facing Hastings Street: "Their name liveth for evermore" and, within a stone wreath, "1914-1918."
Facing Hamilton Street: "Is it nothing to you."
Facing Pender Street: "All ye that pass by."
'Those whose sacrifices this Cenotaph commemorates, were among the men who, at call of King and Country, left all that was dear, endured hardship, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty, giving their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten.'"
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War Monuments in CanadaThis post is dedicated to memory of the 26 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2009. Since 2002, 133 Canadians have made the Supreme Sacrifice.
5,267 American soldiers have died in Iraqi and Afganistan in the 8 years of fighting. May their souls rest in peace.
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