Beside the Hillsborough River Eco Centre, this memorial to the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion. The memorial consists of a pair of grey granite stelia separated by a black granite plaque resting on three square grey granite pillars. The memorial rests on a grey granite base with a highly polished top and sough cut sides. Under the memorial's base is a concrete pad with a wooden sidewalk leading to it from the Eco Centre building. Surrounding the memorial is a large grassed area with a few trees around the perimeter.
The rear of the black granite plaque indicates that this was a 1973 Centennial project.
It is accompanied by a World War I German howitzer, a 10.5-cm Feldhaubitze 98/09, (Serial Nr. 438). This gun was captured on 27 Sep 1918 by the British 11th (Northern) Division "Imperials", operating with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, SW of Epinoy, France.
Inscription found on memorial
IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THE MEN OF THIS AREA WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN OUR COUNTRY'S WARS AND IN EVERLASTING GRATITUDE TO THOSE WHO, DARING TO DIE, SURVIVED
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1914-1918
CYRUS P. BIRT
GEORGE BIRT
COFFIN DOUGLAS
GEORGE MCASSEY
J.E. MCBRIDE
PIUS MACDONALD
RONALD P. MACDONALD
J.J. MACDOUGALL
EDWARD J. POWER
REGINALD JARDINE
JOHN HUGH MACKAY
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1939-1945
WILLIAM DEVEAUX
RUSSELL DOUGLAS
WILLIAM DOUGLAS
JOHN LEVANS
DAVID LAYBOLT
ARTHUR MACDONALD
J. AENEAS MACDONALD
RONALD J. MACDONALD
JAMES J. MACDOUGALL
JOHN MACEACHERN
KIMBLE MACINTYRE
WILBERT MACMILLAN
ALEXANDER ROSS
FRANCIS J. DUGGAN
DANIEL W. MACINNIS
ERNEST J. SMITH
JAMES FRANCIS ROBISON
FRANCIS E. LAWLESS
MICHAEL J. MACKINNON
ALLAN FANNING
DANIEL MCCORMACK
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