CANADIAN MEMORIAL
EDIFICE SEVENTY FEET HIGH.
OTTAWA. Canada's War Memorial, which was unveiled here by his Majesty, King George VI. on May 21, consists of a group of twenty-two bronze figures representing all arms of the service, who are presented as pressing eagerly forward between two granite columns. These columns are surmounted by an architrave bearing the heroic bronze figures of Peace and Freedom. The whole memorial is nearly seventy feet in height and faces the busy streets of Ottawa to the south, with the broad Ottawa River and the rugged hillsides of the Laurentians in the blue distance behind it. All the granite used in the memorial, amounting to 828 tons, was quarried in Canada.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 2
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