Ontario Veterans' War Memorial is a granite wall located on the front south lawn of
Queen's Park in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The wall was designed by Allan Harding MacKay and landscape architectural firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg. Besides images (mostly photographic) laser-etched into the granite, the wall also includes inscriptions from author
Jane Urquhart and military historian
Jack Granatstein on the bronze centre- and end-pieces respectively. The wall was advocated for by the ''Veterans’ Memorial Advisory Committee'' under the leadership of retired
Lieutenant-general
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Richard Rohmer
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, former Minister of Government Services,
Gerry Phillips and public art consultant Karen Mills of Public Art Management.
The wall was completed in 2006 and was officially unveiled on September 16, 2006. It depicts scenes of the
Canadian military's role in times of peace and war since 1867 starting with the
Fenian raids. The most recent conflict listed is "The Campaign Against Terror".
See also
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Canadian war memorials
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References
Ontario Veterans’ Memorial
{{Public art in Toronto
Monuments and memorials in Toronto
Canadian military memorials and cemeteries
Public art in Toronto