Nearly 1,000,000 Canadians, almost all volunteers, who served in Britain in the two world wars, of which 110,000 died.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Canadians who served in Britain in WW1 & WW2
Commemorated ati
Canadian Memorial
Unveiled by the Queen. The Canadian Memorial Foundation website has a colourf...
Other Subjects
J. E. Stanley Lewis
Born in Ottawa. Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948. The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.
David Thompson
Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he em...
Frederick George Creed
Inventor. Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia. While working for the Central and South American Telegraph and Cable Company he became tired of using hand-operated machines to send messages. He came u...
Pete Quaife
Musician. Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Kinnies in Tavistock, Devon. His mother became pregnant after an affair with an American serviceman. She married after the war and the whole family took her ...
Sir John Alexander MacDonald
Born Glasgow, Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1820. first Prime Minister of Canada. G.C.B., P.C., Q.C.