Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Memorialized

Here we have more of the Walter Allward plaster sculptures that would be finalized in the Vimy Memorial.


Stepping out of Regeneration Hall takes us into the Lebreton Gallery, the last of the exhibit spaces in the War Museum. It is filled with tanks, vehicles, equipment, artillery, and other artifacts, from a multitude of time periods and countries. Mounted on one wall are two huge plaques. These hung for many years in the Toronto flagship store for the Eaton department store company. They commemorate those employees for the company who died in the two World Wars.


The Gallery is dominated by a mounted CF-101B Voodoo fighter jet. This is one of the items that had to be placed before the present Museum was finished.


Nearby is a mobile Howitzer. A set of display panels gives technical details on it, like most of the items in this area.

30 comments:

  1. The sculptures all look very dramatic, the scultor is very talented to show expressions !

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  2. ...works of art and works of destruction.

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  3. Beauty and machines of war, quite dramatic.

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  4. The work of human hands is varied and impressive.

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  5. The mere mention of Eaton's evokes memories, a great Canadian store that is no more!

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  6. @Gattina: I agree.

    @Francisco: thanks.

    @Jan: indeed.

    @Tom: a sharp contrast.

    @Gemel: I think so.

    @Marie: definitely.

    @David: Timothy Eaton would not be impressed by what his descendants did to the company.

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  7. I think I remember seeing those plaques at Eaton's.

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  8. The statement , The whole country was at war" was very true as shown in these exhibits.

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  9. He put a lot of emotion in those sculptures.

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  10. The sculptures are beyond stunning, the whole exhibition is fascinating William ✨

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  11. @Iris: indeed.

    @RedPat: no doubt.

    @Red: very much so.

    @Sharon: definitely.

    @Grace: very much so.

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  12. The sculpture are beautiful. I cannot imagine the time and talent it takes to create them.

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  13. Precioso reportaje, saludos desde el norte de España.

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  14. Siguen expresando un gran dramatismo esas bellas esculturas, en recuerdos de todos aquellos que murieron por sus ideales.

    Saludos desde Andalucía(España)

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  15. So much emotion in the sculptures.

    All the best Jan

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  16. Just think, a department store took time to gather all the names from two wars for a plaque.

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    1. And even more of their employees survived the service. If only the current generation of the family hadn't screwed up badly enough to tank the business.

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  17. Gosh they're beautiful and in such good condition.

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  18. Those statues are so powerful. Just brilliant work.

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