Valiants Memorial

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.

Five busts on the west side of the memorial represent each of the five military periods.

From the French Regime (1534-1763)
From the American Revolution (1775-1783)

Le comte de Frontenac

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant)

John Butler

From the War of 1812 (1812-1815)

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB

Lieutenant Colonel Michael d'Irumberry de Salaberrry

Laura Ingersoll Secord

From the First World War (1914-1918)

Georgina Pope

Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB

Joseph-Thomas Kaeble, VC, MM

From the Second World War (1938-1945)

Robert Hampton Gray VC

Captain John Wallace Thomas CBE

Paul Triquet, VC, CD

Andrew Charles Mynarski VC

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