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Edmonton Cenotaph
A recreation of the Edmonton Cenotaph, an icon located at Churchill Square and erected in 1936. It sits around 400-500 pieces.
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Edmonton’s Cenotaph is unique among many of its Albertan contemporaries. Most feature a triumphant figure of the ubiquitous First World War Canadian soldier, outfitted in Service Dress, putties, P08 Webbing, whilst carrying his trusty Lee-Enfield rifle and Brodie Helmet in hand — Edmonton’s does not. It’s appearance is kept simple, and frankly stark, befitting of its message of sacrifice, and the eternalness of death. It is clad in British Columbian marble, an unostentatious, matte, and colourless substance. The simple detailing it bares is appropriate of the men it represents: three lions, signifying strength, bravery and the British Empire, lie atop a fitting epitaph simply reading “REMEMBERED;” above them sits a “detailed sarcophagus, [the] symbol of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier;” over the tomb lies a relief, depicting a heavenly hand reaching down from the clouds above, ready to place the “Wreath of Victory” atop it; finally a Latin cross, “superimposed with a flaming torch, [the] symbol of the courage and willingness of life that carries on in the service of others."
Edmonton Cenotaph
A recreation of the Edmonton Cenotaph, an icon located at Churchill Square and erected in 1936. It sits around 400-500 pieces.
.
Edmonton’s Cenotaph is unique among many of its Albertan contemporaries. Most feature a triumphant figure of the ubiquitous First World War Canadian soldier, outfitted in Service Dress, putties, P08 Webbing, whilst carrying his trusty Lee-Enfield rifle and Brodie Helmet in hand — Edmonton’s does not. It’s appearance is kept simple, and frankly stark, befitting of its message of sacrifice, and the eternalness of death. It is clad in British Columbian marble, an unostentatious, matte, and colourless substance. The simple detailing it bares is appropriate of the men it represents: three lions, signifying strength, bravery and the British Empire, lie atop a fitting epitaph simply reading “REMEMBERED;” above them sits a “detailed sarcophagus, [the] symbol of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier;” over the tomb lies a relief, depicting a heavenly hand reaching down from the clouds above, ready to place the “Wreath of Victory” atop it; finally a Latin cross, “superimposed with a flaming torch, [the] symbol of the courage and willingness of life that carries on in the service of others."