Canada Memorial Foundation

Canada Memorial Foundation

The Canada Memorial Foundation has its origins in a Letter to the Editor published in a British newspaper in 1988 suggesting a monument in memory of the contribution of Canadians to World War I and...

Group, Education, Canada

1 memorial
Canadian Firefighters

Canadian Firefighters

The idea of the fire fighters volunteering to assist Britain was developed between the British government and the then Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King. The Canadian fire fighters museum web...

Group, Armed Forces, Canada

1 memorial
Canadian personnel who served and died in WW2

Canadian personnel who served and died in WW2

85,000 Canadian personnel served in 48 RCAF Squadrons and with numerous RAF units. In all, 14,455 Canadian airmen made the supreme sacrifice while serving overseas.

Group, Canada

2 memorials
Canadians who served in Britain in WW1 & WW2

Canadians who served in Britain in WW1 & WW2

Nearly 1,000,000 Canadians, almost all volunteers, who served in Britain in the two world wars, of which 110,000 died.

Group, Canada

1 memorial
Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau

Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau

The headquarters were at 218 Sussex Gardens from September 1945 to the winter of 1948.

Group, Canada, Ukraine

1 memorial
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Novelist. Born in Chicago, Illinois. After his father abandoned the family, his mother moved him to Britain to further his education, At Dulwich College. He worked for a while at the Admiralty, but...

Person, Literature, Canada, France, USA

1 memorial
Flt/Sgt. Alexander Chibanoff, RCAF

Flt/Sgt. Alexander Chibanoff, RCAF

From Glendon, Alberta, Canada. Aged 22years.  Buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Brookwood near Woking.  

Person, Canada

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Jean Chrétien

Jean Chrétien

Born Quebec, Canada. Prime Minister of Canada in 1993-2003.

Person, Politics & Administration, Canada

2 memorials
Reverend Percival Clementi-Smith

Reverend Percival Clementi-Smith

Active in 1901 as rector of St Andrew by the Wardrobe. From A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7: "Rev. Percival. Clementi-Smith . . . has a very good head of white hair and a fine healthy-looking, good-h...

Person, Religion, Canada

1 memorial
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