The memorial plaque is beside the main entrance of the Gare du Palais. The main entrance faces south, facing rue de la Gare du Palais. This station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1915, replacing an earlier railroad station that dated back to the early 1870s.
During the war, more than eleven thousand employees of the CPR would join the military. About ten percent of those men were killed in action or died in service. In addition to the text of the memorial transcribed below, the tablet also mentions the following battles: Ypres, Festubert, The Somme, Vimy, Hill 70,
Passchendaele, Amiens, Cambrai, Drocourt-Queant, and Mons. Twenty-three copies of the same memorial were created and survive in other places such as the CPR station in Saskatoon.
At the end of the war, this station was also known as Union Station because it was also host to the National Transcontinental Railway and the Quebec Central Railway after the Quebec Bridge was opened.
THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THOSE IN THE SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY WHO AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDSHIP, FACED DANGER AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF SIGHT OF MEN BY PATH OF DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.