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Toronto, Ontario 8 years 10 months ago #45072

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The South African War Memorial is a memorial located at University Avenue and Queen Street West in Toronto.

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 Boer War, it consists of three bronze figures at the base of a granite column. Another bronze figure is found at the top of the memorial. It was restored in 2001.

For two decades after the war, Canadians would gather on February 27 (known in Canada as "Paardeberg Day") around memorials to the South African War to say prayers and honour veterans. This continued until the end of the First World War.
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TO THE MEMORY AND IN HONOUR OF THE
CANADIANS WHO DIED DEFENDING THE EMPIRE
IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899 - 1902

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Inscribed on the front of the obelisk:-
PAARDEBERG
DREIFONTEIN
JOHANNESBURG
DIAMOND HILL
BELFAST
RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY
RELIEF OF MAFEKING
HARTS RIVER

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On the right:-
NATAL
SOUTH AFRICA 1901
SOUTH AFRICA 1902



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and on the left:-
CAPE COLONY
ORANGE FREE STATE
TRANSVAAL
RHODESIA

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