Cenotaph (Montreal)

Canadian war memorial monument

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Cenotaph

Cenotaph

Location| Place du Canada
Coordinates| 45°29′55.079″N 73°34′7.878″W﻿ / ﻿45.49863306°N 73.56885500°W﻿ / 45.49863306; -73.56885500
Builder| Anglin-Norcross Ltd.
Type| Monument
Material| bronze, granite
Opening date| 1921
Dedicated to| death combatants in World War I, World War II, and Korean War

The Cenotaph is a public monument in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, commemorating the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

## Overview

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The Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, unveiled Montreal's Cenotaph in Dominion Square (now Place du Canada), in 1921. The monument was inspired by The Cenotaph, London (1920).

On the sixth anniversary of the armistice (November 11, 1924) a crowd assembled at the monument. At exactly eleven o'clock the assembled crowd fell silent for two minutes.

## Notes

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* Alan Gordon, Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891–1930. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, p. 93.
* Monument aux braves de Montréal

## External links

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* Media related to Montreal Cenotaph at Wikimedia Commons

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Public art in Montreal

* Angel of Victory
* Boer War Memorial
* Cactus modulaire
* Cadran solaire
* Cenotaph
* Cité Mémoire
* Edward VII Monument
* The English Pug and the French Poodle
* Enterspace
* Entourage Guimard
* Exaltation
* Female Landscape
* Fenêtre sur l'avenir
* Fermière Monument
* George-Étienne Cartier Monument
* Hommage à Marguerite Bourgeoys
* Ignace Bourget Monument
* Irish Commemorative Stone
* Jeanne Mance Monument
* John Young Monument
* La Joute
* Les chuchoteuses
* Lion of Belfort
* Macdonald Monument
* Maisonneuve Monument
* Marie-Victorin Statue
* Monument aux braves de N.D.G.
* Mount Royal Cross
* Nelson's Column
* Nicolaus Copernicus Monument
* Les petits Baigneurs
* Pioneers' Obelisk
* Polypède
* Robert Burns Memorial
* Roddick Gates
* Salvador Allende Monument
* Square Forms and Circles
* Statue of André Bessette
* Statue of Guy Lafleur
* Statue of Howie Morenz
* Statue of Jean Béliveau
* Statue of Jean Drapeau
* Statue of Jean Vauquelin
* Statue of Maurice Richard
* Statue of Mihai Eminescu
* Tai Chi Single Whip
* Tenderness
* The Three Graces
* Victoria Memorial
* War Memorial of Montreal West
* Wilfrid Laurier Memorial

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