St. Pierre Memorial

In 1920 the Canadian William A. Rogers Limited Company published a catalogue of memorial designs including the overlife-sized statue of a pensive infantryman, leaning on his rifle, with his chin resting on his hand. According to the catalogue, Rogers was at that time the only bronze foundry in Canada that had successfully made large casts like this, and the figure as a cast from a model by a St. Boniface sculptor named Nicolas Pirroton.

En 1920, la firme canadienne William A. Rogers Limited Company publia un catalogue de monuments commémoratifs dans lequel figurait la statue surdimensionnée d’un soldat d’infanterie pensif qui prend appui sur son arme, le menton posé sur sa main. Selon le catalogue, cette firme fut, à l’époque, la seule fonderie de bronze au Canada qui réussit à produire un modèle de cette taille. La statue est un moulage fait à partir d’un modèle de Nicolas Pirroton, un sculpteur de Saint‑Boniface.