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War Memorial
WW1 1914 – 1918
WW2 1939 – 1945
This is the first monument to be erected in Nova Scotia
to honour those who served their country in World War One.
The base stone was laid on 28 August 1917.
Monument
New Ross
Lunenburg County
Nova Scotia
Located at the New Ross Legion building, on the north side
of the Forties Road, about 200m west from Highway 12
GPS location: 44°44'11"N 64°27'39"W
Photographed on 7 September 2003
South face
Photographed on 2 October 2002
East and north faces
Photographed on 2 October 2002
West face
Photographed on 31 October 2002
Photographed on 19 November 2005
Photographed on 19 November 2005
At the regular meeting of the New Ross Historical Society in January 2006,
the speaker for the evening, Ron Barkhouse, Historian, gave a talk on
the history of the New Ross monument, which included these facts:
• The monument is the first monument to be erected in Nova
Scotia to honour those who served their country in World War One.
• The monument was erected to honour ex-soldiers who settled New Ross (then Sherbrooke) as well as those who served in World War One.
• The base stone was placed at the village crossroads on 28 August 1917.
• The finished or polished stones and crown were placed on the
base in the fall of 1918.
• In 1959, the Monument/Cenotaph was moved from its original site to its
present location on the grounds of the New Ross Canadian Legion,
Branch #79.
• What was considered phase 2 of the project, that is, the
likeness of a soldier on a stone column, was placed atop the monument in the 1990s.
Thanks to Ron Barkhouse, Historian, New Ross Historical Society
The New Ross war memorial monument at its original location, before 1959
Photograph thanks to Gerald Keddy
The Wayback Machine has archived copies of this document:
New Ross War Memorial
Archived: 2003 August 16
http://web.archive.org/web/20030816201303/http://www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
Archived: 2004 January 15
http://web.archive.org/web/20040115223059/http://www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
Archived: 2004 June 03
http://web.archive.org/web/20040603083633/http://www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
Archived: 2005 February 15
http://web.archive.org/web/20050215154636/http://www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
Archived: 2005 October 26
http://web.archive.org/web/20051026115148/http://newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
Archived: 2006 February 15
http://web.archive.org/web/20060215071049/http://www.newscotland1398.net/lunenco/rossmem.html
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Chester Basin war memorial Chester Basin
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/chbasinm.html
Western Shore war memorial Western Shore
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/weshore.html
Chester war memorial Chester
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/chesmem.html
Chester bronze cannons Chester
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/chesbronzcann.html
Norwegian war memorial at Chester
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/norchest.html
Camp Norway memorial Lunenburg
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/norwaycmp.html
Parkdale-Maplewood war memorial Parkdale-Maplewood
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/parkmaple.html
New Germany war memorial New Germany
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/newgermanym.html
Springfield war memorial Springfield
http://ns1763.ca/annapco/springfld.html
Upper Northfield war memorial Upper Northfield
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/uppernorthm.html
West Northfield war memorial West Northfield
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/westnorthfld.html
Military Engineers Gold River Bridge
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/goldriver.html
Military Engineers Martins River Bridge
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/martinsriver.html
Veterans' Memorial Bridge Bridgewater
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Riverport war memorial Riverport
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Mosher memorial Lower LaHave
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/moshermem.html
Five Houses cannon Lower LaHave
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/5housescann.html
Ritcey monument Riverport
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Montbeliard monument Lunenburg
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/montbeliard.html
Blockhouse Hill cannon Lunenburg
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/blockhsecann.html
Fort Point monument LaHave
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Kempt war memorial Kempt
http://ns1763.ca/qrm/kemptmem.html
Delbert Webber, blacksmith shop Chester Basin
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/webberdel.html
Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
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Memorial: Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1940-1945 Middleton
http://ns1763.ca/annapco/bcatpww2.html
Commonwealth Air Training Plan memorial, 1940-1945 Kingston
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bcatprc.html
Blue Mountain Cemetery Association Blue Mountain
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/bluemtn.html
Acadia U. Memorial Gym Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/acadiamemgym.html
Wolfville war memorial Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfmem.html
Kentville Legion war memorial Kentville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/kentlegion.html
Kentville Park war memorial Kentville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/kentmem.html
Swissair Flight 111 Memorial, Bayswater
http://ns1763.ca/lunenco/swissbaysw.html
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First uploaded to the WWW: 2002 October 06
New photograph installed: 2003 October 07
New photographs installed: 2005 November 28
Added monument history from NRHS: 2006 January 27
NHRS photograph installed: 2006 February 09
Latest update: 2007 January 08