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In the decades after World War II, special efforts were made by the people of Transcona to memorialize the service and sacrifice given by young men and women. The duty of Remembrance was taken on by the Transcona War Memorial Committee, local churches and schools, Royal Canadian Legion - Transcona Branch # 7, Town/City of Transcona (later the City of Winnipeg), local businesses and the CNR Transcona Shops.

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Decoration Day ceremony at the Transcona Cemetery
1986
Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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Each year in June, Member of the Royal Canadian Legion, war veterans, and their families would take part in Decoration Day services held in the military section of the Transcona Cemetery.

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Entrance to the Midway of the Transcona Shops
2003
Pandora Avenue West at Bond Street, Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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On Armistice Day, the whole town would listen for the sound of the "Shop Whistle" that the Canadian National Railway would blow to signal two minutes of silence in the Transcona Shops.

"But on November the 11th, Armistice Day, it would always blow at 11 o'clock and if November 11th fell on a working day, then we were to stop work and silence would prevail in the Shops. In what would be otherwise be very, very noisy environment and all of a sudden it was silent then at two minutes past 11 it would blow again so we would go about our work." [Jim Potter, former Supervisor, Car Department].

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In 1954, the Cenotaph was moved from the intersection of Regent and Oxford to its present location in "Park Circle", (also known as "Town Park", "Circle Park" and "Central Park Circle"). On September 25, 1998, the park was given a new name to reflect its importance, history, and meaning to the community and was officially dedicated as "Memorial Park Circle".

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Cenotaph located in Memorial Park Circle
2003
Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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Names of Transcona men who made the Supreme Sacrifice while Serving King and Country. Names appearing with stars have not been put on the Cenotaph to date:

World War I (1914-1918)
John (Jack) D. Aird , H. M. Andrews, Alfred Annis, George Austin*, Walter Barugh, Charles Ernest Court Bashford, Thomas Grant Beattie*, Horace Carl Beken*, John Berry*, William Murray Bower, Charles Edmund Bradley, George Cecil Shirley Brooks, G. A. (LeBrun) Brown, Harold Lambert Buck, Edmund Hall Buckley, John Buntain, David Campbell, V. Carroll, John Cooper, R.C. Dyer, John Edwards, Alexander Elliott, James Ellis, George Esselmont, Donald Farquharson, Edward Charles Ferg*, W. H. Fessey, Alexander Coull Gibb, Pte. Gordon, W. Green, Angus Gunn, James William Harvey, William Heron, H. Higgins, Thomas Hines, E. Hynes, Walter Leonard Holland, James Fingland Hyslop, Harry Jenkins, F.J. Johnson, Pierce Edward Jones, A.B. Keens, Ernest H. King*, S.W. Kipping*, William Law*, David Linklater, W. Lisoway, Alfred Louden, Cyril Augustine McAllister, Pat McGillivray, George McKay, Angus Keith McKinven, Michael McPherson, Ethelbert "Bert" William Mickleburg, William Duncan Millican*, Samuel Parnell Marsh*, Donald Munro, M. Parazenski*, Joseph Phileas Poirier, Donald H. Rankin, H.J. Rees, T.W. Roberts, W.E. Roberts*, John Jamieson Robson, George Ryan, E.J. Schafer, F.W. Smith*, H. Swithenbank, Edward Trenham, R.A. Walker, Reginald Guy Walker*, Daniel David Walwin Webster, Oscar Thomas White, John Pinder Willacy, Richard Williams*, Scot Wilkinson*, Alexander Wood Youngson

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Commemoration plaque 1914 - 1918
June 2001
Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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World War II (1939-1945)

Names appearing with a star have not been added to the Cenotaph to date.

In remembrance of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice 1939 - 1945

Bertram "Bert" Edwin Atwood, John Frederick Andrews*, Arthur John "Jack" Bate, Joseph Belanger, Henry Westbrook Blackwell*, Roger Joseph "Sonny" Firman, Roy Stanley Greengrass, Allen Haigh, Leslie Ernest Hurst, James N. Johnston, Alfred Kirby, Joseph Armand G. Larche, Antoni "Tony" Lopuck, Henry "Harry" Magas, Joseph Leo Paul Marcotte, Ralph C. Maxwell, William Alexander "Billy" McCann, George McDougall, Duncan Ross Macmillan, Hrynkory "Harry" Moroz, Michael "Mike" Moroz, John R. Muir, Ronald Keith Phillips, Leo Joseph Regimbal, George Douglas "Doug", Robinson, Ernest Frank Stammers, Joseph Arthur William Sutherland, Elliot L. Swanton, Joseph Tetrault, George Turcotte, Victor Lewis Valde, Stuart Frederick Walters*, Tom Huntington Widlake, Albert Alfred Wylie

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Commemoration plaque 1939 - 1945
June 2004
Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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Rededication plaque found on the Cenotaph
June 2001
Memorial Park Circle, Transcona, Manitoba, Canada

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Sixty years after it was erected in Transcona, the Cenotaph was rededicated at a Decoration Day ceremony on June 3, 2001.

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Billy McCann Park
2003
Day Street at Rosseau Avenue, Transcona, Manitoba, Canada