Veterans Memorial Park is a small treed park adjoining the north side of the provincial courthouse. Completed in 2012, Veterans Memorial Park contains this tall World War I Cenotaph as well as memorials honouring the Canadian Naval Forces, the police forces of Canada and the Firefighters of Canada.
On the cenotaph are a trio of quotes from the Bible, one from Isaiah XXXIV, one from John XV and one from First Corinthians XV.
A tall granite obelisk, the cenotaph was erected by the Great War Veterans' Association as a World War I memorial in 1920, to which was later added plaques honouring the veterans of World War II. The Great War Veterans' Association, created in 1917, was a precursor of the Canadian Legion, which was created in 1925.
Below are the quotes from the cenotaph.
[south side of cenotaph]
"SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD AND READ"
ISAIAH XXXIV, 16
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS,"
JOHN XV, 13
"FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE", I CORINTHIANS, XV, 57
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