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Dignity of Earth and Sky (shortened to Dignity for brevity) is a sculpture on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota. [2] The 50-foot (15.24 meter) high stainless steel statue by South Dakota artist laureate Dale Claude Lamphere depicts an Indigenous woman in Plains-style dress receiving a star quilt.
The Terry Fox Monument in Thunder Bay This is a list of monuments and memorials to Terry Fox. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2019) General Monument or memorial Type Location Date Notes Canada 150 Terry Fox stamp Postage stamp 2017 One of 10 stamps issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Canada. CCGS Terry Fox Icebreaker St. John's, Newfoundland and ...
Canada has several monuments and memorials that to varying degrees commemorate people and groups accused of collaboration with Nazi forces.. Monuments and memorials include or have included a statue of Draža Mihailović in Ontario, two monuments in Ontario and Alberta connected with the Waffen-SS, a statue of Roman Shukhevych, streets and parks named after Alexis Carrel and Philipp Lenard, a ...
The statue was unveiled on October 1, 1914, by Edward's brother, Governor General Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, with a huge crowd in attendance. Edward had visited Montreal in 1860, when he was the Prince of Wales, to open the Victoria Bridge .
Statue of Queen Elizabeth II on Parliament Hill, Ottawa Statue of Harry Jerome Statue of John Landy and Roger Bannister's "Miracle Mile". Jack Harman OBC (1927–2001) was a Canadian sculptor from Vancouver, British Columbia, the "creator of some of Canada's best-known public art," including an equestrian monument of Queen Elizabeth II on Parliament Hill, unveiled by the Queen in 1992.
The South African War Memorial is a memorial located at University Avenue and Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.. Commissioned in 1910, largely as the result of the efforts of James Mason, and designed by Walter Seymour Allward to commemorate Canada's participation in the Second Boer War, it consists of three bronze figures at the base of a granite column.
"Tecumseh Stone", Fort Malden National Historic Site Turtle-shell Tecumseh Monument at the site of the Battle of the Thames Tecumseh is honored in Canada as a hero and military commander who played a major role in Canada's successful repulsion of an American invasion in the War of 1812, which, among other things, eventually led to Canada's nationhood in 1867 with the British North America Act.
A 7.3 metres (24 ft) statue stands on top of the Roman-styled arches. [8] Referred to as Wing Victory , its design was modified several times during the structure's design phase. [ 2 ] [ 18 ] It has been suggested that the sculpture was modelled after the Winged Victory of Samothrace . [ 18 ]