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Photographs of
New Ross
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

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