CANADIAN PILGRIMS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19900, 1 June 1936, Page 12

CANADIAN PILGRIMS

} GIANT MONUMENT READY AFTER TEN YEA”. SEARCH FOR HARDEST STONE. LONDON. April 18. On the slopes or Vimy, Where 1; years ago thousands of Canadian. gave their lives in driving the Ger. mans from a master stronghold, . graceful monument stands com- ’ plated. It has taken ,ten year. to build, cost £300,000, and will stand on the ridge. a permanent remain. bronco of Canada's 60,000 man lost in the war. King Edward will be there, Mr MacKenzie King (Prim. Minister of Canada.) will be there, and M. Lebrun (President of France) with five shlploads of Canada's way \ veterans. Tran stone. :1 xrainleas, Hm.— based rock full of glittering cryutu.‘ gives the memorial beauty. Twm pylons. 140 ft. high. rise from the parapeted base twice the length of the columns. Twenty inspiring fig. ures, double lite size. at. the corners. base, and tops of. the pylons com. plate the scheme. The world was searched for atone. Canada had none hard enough. North, South America, England, tbq East. Central Europe—end in Can. trai Europe, Yugoslavia, the non. was found. It was taken from an old Roman Quarry, in disuse .10;nmre than 500 years, with 30m. great blocks still lying at its momh_ Eighteen miles away. :it Split. was the palace of Emperor Diocletian, built of this self-same stone. Sculptor Walter Allward. Toronto born, won the award for the design of the memorial. From top to bottom. even to the drafting of thousands oi names that letter the walls, (in memorial is his. Five thousand five hundred Can. ndinn veterans. their wives. children. mothers have already paid their passage money for the i‘lerimage t 0 the unveilinlz. %