Valiants Memorial
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The Valiants Memorial (French: Monument aux Valeureux) is a military monument located in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, commemorating fourteen signal figures from the military history of the country.
The work consists of nine busts and five statues, all life-sized, by artists Marlene Hilton Moore and John McEwen. It was installed around the Sappers Staircase, an underpass on the northeastern corner of Confederation Square, adjacent to the National War Memorial. The wall of the staircase is decorated with a quotation from The Aeneid by Virgil: Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time". The monument was dedicated by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on November 5, 2006.
The heroes commemorated in the monument are:
- From the French Regime (1534-1763):
- Le comte de Frontenac
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (full-sized statue)
- From the American Revolution (1775-1783):
- Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) (full-sized statue)
- John Butler
- From the War of 1812 (1812-1815):
- Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, KB
- Charles de Salaberry (full-sized statue)
- Laura Secord (full-sized statue)
- From the First World War (1914-1918):
- Georgina Pope
- General Sir Arthur Currie, GCMG, KCB (full-sized statue)
- Corporal Joseph Kaeble, VC, MM
- From the Second World War (1938-1945):
- Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC
- Captain John Wallace Thomas, CBE
- Major Paul Triquet, VC, CD
- Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, VC
