Une visite guidée de 12 arrêts pour revoir le passé et éveiller votre curiosité concernant la vie et la mort de Kingstoniens durant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Une visite guidée de 12 arrêts pour revoir le passé et éveiller votre curiosité concernant la vie et la mort de Kingstoniens durant la Première Guerre mondiale.

The Kingston Memorial Walk honours the lived history of Kingstonians who were affected by and those who served in WWI. This walking tour focuses on family homes, individual stories, monuments, and other relevant points around downtown Kingston.

Places of worship offered somewhere to pray for the safe return of family and friends. They become a place to recruit men to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

194 Bagot—James Crossley Stewart

180 Bagot—Arthur Hopkins Tett

168 Bagot—Thomas Vincent Hammond

166 Bagot —Donald Arthur Layzell

164 Bagot—Owen Michael Madden

55 West St.—Emma Florence Pence, one of the first Canadian nurses to serve on the front lines.

You’ve heard the place names. Vimy Ridge. Hill 70. Passchendaele. Ypres. Flanders. This monument is in memory of the Kingstonians who died there.

Flight was a new technology in 1914. 14,000 Allied pilots died during the First World War, half of them during training.

Two oak trees - one young, one old, dedicated to peace on September 21st 2013, the United Nations International Day of Peace.

Grieving the Tragedy of War.

Committed to the promise of peace.

The monument lists human casualties. 8 million horses also died during the First World War.

“At this stage to lose a horse was worse than losing a man because after all, men were replaceable while horses weren’t”- Bert Stokes remembers Passchendaele

One of over 1,000 identical Crosses of Sacrifice around the world. Site of one of Kingston’s November 11th Remembrance Day events.