Cenotaph (Montreal)
 Cenotaph in front of 1000 de La Gauchetière and Château Champlain | |
| Coordinates | 45°29′55.03″N 073°34′07.75″W / 45.4986194°N 73.5688194°WCoordinates: 45°29′55.03″N 073°34′07.75″W / 45.4986194°N 73.5688194°W |
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| Location | Place du Canada |
| Type | Monument |
| Material | bronze, granite |
| Opening date | 1921 |
| Dedicated to | death combatants in World War I |
The Cenotaph is a public monument in Montreal.
Overview
The Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, unveiled Montreal's Cenotaph in the Place du Canada, a part of Dominion Square, in 1921. The monument was inspired by the Cenotaph, London (1920).
On the sixth anniversary of the armistice (November 11, 1924) a crowd assembled at the monument as usual. At exactly eleven o'clock the assembled crowd fell utterly silent for two minutes.
Notes
- Alan Gordon, Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, p. 93.
- Monument aux braves de Montréal
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