The Animals in War Memorial (officially Animals in War and Les animaux en temps de guerre) is a memorial sculpture located at

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, Ontario, Canada. It commemorates animals used by the Canadian military (

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) in conflicts since the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the So ...

(this excludes the use of animals by

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and

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before

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existed as a country).

Sculptures

The memorial consists of three plaques mounted on a stone and sculpture of a dog with foot prints locate next to the South African War Memorial, Ottawa and near the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument. The plaques consists of: * Dedication to animals at war * Dedication to

Mule The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two po ...

s * Dedication to

Horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

s * Dedication to Dogs Inscriptions on the plaques are in English and French. The plaques and sculpture are created by Ottawa-based artist David Clendining with Laureen Harper as honorary patron of the project.

Construction

The memorial was inspired by Lloyd Swick, a

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

and

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veteran, who remembered a painting of a horse at war at his high school in 1939. Swick and supporters presented the idea for a memorial to the

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Committee in 2010. The memorial became reality and was unveiled on November 3, 2012.

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Animal monuments Monuments and memorials in Ottawa 2012 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Canada Canadian military memorials and cemeteries 2012 establishments in Canada Sculptures of dogs in Canada

Sculptures

Construction

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