It is Canada’s largest overseas national memorial.
60,000 Canadians were killed or missing during the war, out of which over 11,000 have no known grave.
Allwards design consisted of two pylons 30 meters tall, representing Canada and France.
A number of figures including 20 human figures are sculpted on the monument.
Two groups of figures located at each end of the front wall comprise seven figures calledThe Defenders.
The group of three figures calledBreaking of the Swordis on the south corner of the front wall.
Above each group a gun barrel with laurel and olive branches represents peace.
Two recliningMourning Parentsare on the southern side of the memorial.
A solitary figure calledMother Canadastands on the wall at the north-eastern side of the memorial.
She bows her head and is looking down at a stone sarcophogus, representing Canada’s war dead.
The memorial took monument designer Walter Seymour Allward eleven years to build.
