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Remembered in Bronze and Stone

Canada's Great War Memorial Statuary

by (author) Alan MacLeod

Publisher
Heritage House Publishing
Initial publish date
Nov 2016
Category
Canada, Sculpture & Installation, World War I
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    ISBN
    9781772031546
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $24.95

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Remembered in Broze and Stone evokes the years immediately following the First World War, when grief was still freshly felt in communities from one end of Canada to the other. This book tells the story of the nation’s war memorials—particularly bronze or stone sculptures depicting Canadian soldiers—through the artists who conceived them, the communities that built them, and, above all, those who died in the war and were immortalized in these stunning sculptures raised in their honour. A century has passed since Canadians were scarred by the loss of more than sixty thousand sons and daughters, who now lie in faraway battlefield graves. Highlighting more than 130 monuments from coast to coast, Remembered in Bronze and Stone revives a pivotal period in history that changed Canada forever.

About the author

Alan MacLeod has a lifelong interest in history, nature, and writing. He is the co-author, with Ronald Caplan, of Cape Bretoners in the First World War. In 2010, after visiting the war memorial in Westville, Nova Scotia, MacLeod embarked on a research trip across Canada to visit similar First World War memorials, and soon he had amassed enough material to deliver lectures to various historical organizations across the country—and to write this book.

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