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 Warren G. Harding Memorial - Vancouver, BC Posted by:  bluesnote
N 49° 17.946 W 123° 07.998
10U E 490308 N 5460714
A memorial to the first US president to visit Canada at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Waymark Code: WM1922T
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/11/2023
Views: 1
The monument reads:
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"What an object lesson of peace is shown today by our two countries to all the world. No grim-faced fortifications mark our frontiers, no huge battleships patrol our dividing waters, no stealthy spies lurk in our tranquil border hamlets. Only a scrap of paper, recording hardly more than a simple understanding, safe-guarding lives and properties on the Great Lakes, and only humble mile posts mark the inviolable boundary line for thousands of miles through farm and forest.
"Our protection is in our fraternity. Our armour is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is
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ever increasing acquaintance and comradeship through interchange of citizens and the compact is not of perishable parchment, but of fair and honorable dealing, which, god grant, shall continue for all time."
Erected by the Kiwanis International in memory of a great occasion in the life of two sister nations here on July 26 1925 Warren Gamaliel Harding Twenty-ninth president of the United States of America, and first president to visit Canada charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Marion, Ohio spoke words that are worthy of record in lasting granite. Dedicated September 16, 1925
Text on Monument/Memorial Sign or Plaque:
(Left)
"What an object lesson of peace is shown today by our two countries to all the world. No grim-faced fortifications mark our frontiers, no huge battleships patrol our dividing waters, no stealthy spies lurk in our tranquil border hamlets. Only a scrap of paper, recording hardly more than a simple understanding, safe-guarding lives and properties on the Great Lakes, and only humble mile posts mark the inviolable boundary line for thousands of miles through farm and forest.
"Our protection is in our fraternity. Our armour is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is
(right)
ever increasing acquaintance and comradeship through interchange of citizens and the compact is not of perishable parchment, but of fair and honorable dealing, which, god grant, shall continue for all time."
Erected by the Kiwanis International in memory of a great occasion in the life of two sister nations here on July 26 1925 Warren Gamaliel Harding Twenty-ninth president of the United States of America, and first president to visit Canada charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Marion, Ohio spoke words that are worthy of record in lasting granite. Dedicated September 16, 1925
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