Ontario Veterans' War Memorial is a granite wall located on the front south lawn of Queen's Park in

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, 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

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and military historian

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on the bronze centre- and end-pieces respectively. The wall was advocated for by the ''Veterans’ Memorial Advisory Committee'' under the leadership of retired

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, former Minister of Government Services,

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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

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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".

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Ontario Veterans’ Memorial
{{Public art in Toronto Monuments and memorials in Toronto Canadian military memorials and cemeteries Public art in Toronto

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