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. These Gates were originally the entrance gates to the university campus and flanked University Drive. In the 1980s, due to increased traffic to the southwest portion of the campus, primarily

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, a new road entrance was built to the west. The gates remain, with the remnant of University Drive passing through them renamed Memorial Crescent. The gates are now primarily used by pedestrians, though the roadway is open to vehicles.

Memorial Gates

University of Saskatchewan

Listing of those alumni who gave their lives in the Great War

These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War 1914–1918 and gave their lives that we might live in freedom * Ypres * Somme * Vimy * Paschendale

Erection Date

Memorial Gates erected 1927 a.d.

Ashes

The ashes of

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were scattered at the gates.

Nearby

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* Victoria One Room School house * St. Andrew's College *

References

This article uses the primary source images as documentation for this article. The memorial gates etch the

alumni who have fallen in the great war into the stone work. Click on an image for more detail.

Footnotes

External links

The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan , 196th (Western Universities) Battalion

On Campus News – Memorial Gates commemorate 67 students and ...

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