In Memory of Our Fallen Soldiers

Unveiled on July 1, 1924, the Cross of Sacrifice originally honoured Canadian soldiers killed in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which over 66,000 lost their lives. A handful of earth from Vimy, the site of Canada’s most decisive involvement in the war, was placed under the base of the monument. As later conflicts arose, inscriptions were added for soldiers lost in the Second World War, in which over 42,000 were killed, and the Korean War, in which 516 were killed. The National Battlefields Commission decorates the ground at the base with carpet bedding, arranging plants so their colours form inscriptions or evocative images, and poppies planted at the foot of the cross symbolize soldiers killed in combat and recall the Great Wars until Remembrance Day on November 11 if weather allows.

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