Valiants_Memorial

Valiants Memorial

Valiants Memorial

Military monument in Ontario, Canada

The Valiants Memorial (French: Monument aux Valeureux) is a military monument located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It commemorates fourteen key figures from the military history of Canada. Dedicated by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on 5 November 2006,[2] the work consists of nine busts and five statues, all life-sized, by artists Marlene Hilton Moore and John McEwen.[3]

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The monument was installed around the Sappers Staircase, an underpass on the northeastern corner of Confederation Square, adjacent to the National War Memorial. The wall of the staircase is decorated with a quotation from the Aeneid by Virgil:[4]

"Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo"[5]

which translates to "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time" (French: Aucun jour ne t'effacera jamais de la mémoire du temps).

The heroes commemorated in the monument are:

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References

  1. [1]
    "Valiants Memorial Unveiled" (Press release). Government of Canada. 6 November 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  2. [2]
    Bill Curry (6 November 2006). "Memorial marks valiant efforts". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Valiants Memorial". Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada. 7 June 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  4. [4]
    David Williams (2009). Media, Memory, and the First World War. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 48. Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-0-7735-3507-7.
  5. [5]
    Vergilius, Aeneis, IX, 447 :
    Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, (446)
    nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, (447)
    dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum (448)
    accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit. (449)
    The same verse, in an English translation, is now engraved on a wall in the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time".
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