Finale

Canada's Grand Armada, 1914 is a 1919 painting by Frederick Challener.

Canadian Headquarters Staff is the title of this 1918 painting by William Nicholson.

The Museum has a series of examples of nose cone art. Pilots and crews of fighters and bomber planes, particularly during the Second World War, would adorn their planes.

Canadians Arriving On The Rhine was painted by Inglis Sheldon-Williams in 1918-19.

This is The Return To Mons, also by Sheldon-Williams, a 1920 work.

Canadians ended the Great War by liberating Mons, and presented two of their field guns to the citizens, saying they were the last guns to have fired on the enemy. In 2018, in commemoration of the centennial of the end of the war, the people of Mons returned this one of the pair to Canada, and it now resides here. A fitting place of honour.

One last artifact to see, and it's down this hall. The Memorial Chamber houses a single artifact, and it is one of the other two focal points of the Museum's architecture.

It is the original tombstone of the man whose remains now lie in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial. He was a Canadian soldier who fell at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The architecture of the entire museum is aligned so that on November 11th, should it be sunny, this tombstone will be illuminated by sunshine coming through windows behind me overhead.

I hope you have enjoyed this visit.