Cape Croker Cenotaph

Following the end of the Great War, Cape Crocker erected a cenotaph in honour of local citizens who died in the conflict. The cenotaph features a young soldier from the First World War, standing tall on top of a granite base, grasping his rifle vertically in front of him.

Two additional stele where added in 1999 listing the wars and conflicts of which soldiers from this community have served and honouring all from Cape Crocker who were killed in war service.

Ontario war memorials based on the same template as Cape Crocker’s were constructed in Kemptville, Sunderland and Wiarton.

Inscription

[front/devant]

[left/gauche]

WARS

1812-1814
1914-1918
1939-1945
KOREAN
1950-1953
DESERT STORM
1991

[center/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”

[right/droit]

UN
PEACEKEEPERS

YEMEN
EGYPT
CONGO
CYPRUS
BOSNIA
NATO

[base, left side/base, côté gauche]

1939-1945

ALFRED MCLEOD
ISADORE PEDONIQUOTT
BENJAMIN ASHKEWE
JOHN MCLEOD JR
HOWARD JONES
JACKSON CHEGAHNO
WILFRED LAMURANDIERE
ENOCH TAYLOR

Following the end of the Great War, Cape Crocker sought to erect a memorial to those local citizens who had died in the conflict. Ontario war memorials based on the same template as Cape Crocker’s were constructed in Kemptville, Sunderland and Wiarton. The memorial features a lone young soldier standing tall, grasping his rifle vertically in front of him. Since that time, the soldier’s memorial has come to symbolize all from Cape Crocker killed in war service.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.