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View of the war memorial commemorating World Wars I and II, between Sherbrooke Street and chemin de la Côte Saint-Antoine, Westmount, Québec
View of the war memorial commemorating World Wars I and II, between Sherbrooke Street and chemin de la Côte Saint-Antoine, Westmount, Québec
People:
  • Aline Gubbay (photographer)
  • George W. Hill (role unspecified)
  • Percy Erskine Nobbs (architect)
Title:

View of the war memorial commemorating World Wars I and II, between Sherbrooke Street and chemin de la Côte Saint-Antoine, Westmount, Québec

Date:

1977 or 1978

Description:

- This war memorial commemorates the men of Westmount who died during World War I and World War II. The bronze statue in the round shows an armed soldier being guided forward by a winged Victory. There are two bas-reliefs on either side of the base, the one on the right side shows a nurse with an armchair in the background while the one on the left side shows a woman and dog with a soldier's uniform and helmet in the background. The parapet at the rear of the statue lists the men who died during World War I, while the parapets to either side of the statue list the men who died during World War II.

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.3 x 16.5 cm sheet: 17.9 x 16.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1403

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.: "?" [sideways]; and l.c.: "Ware[sic] Dead" [upside down] inscribed - in the image, on the base of the monument, at the front: "TO.THE.MEN / OF.WESTMOUNT / WHO.GAVE / THEIR.LIVES / IN.THE.GREAT.WAR / MCMXIV - MCMXVIII / AND.IN / THE.WORLD.WAR / MCMXXXIX - MCMXLV"; on the base of the monument, at the rear: "THEIR.NAME / LIVETH.FOR / EVERMORE"; on both sides of the parapet at the rear: "THE ROLL OF HONOUR" followed by 8 panels of the names of the dead with "1914-1918" at the bottom; and on both sides of the parapets to each side of the monument: "TO HONOUR" followed by 5 panels of names of the dead with "1939-1945" at the bottom.

Location:

Westmount; Québec; Canada;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • sculpture
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • figures (representations)
  • apartment houses
  • sculpture
  • war memorial
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Copyright:

© Aline Gubbay

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