The statue originally stood in Edward Park in Delhi, India, and was a gift from the government of India.
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This regimental memorial is square column of grey granite. The design was selected by Eric Haldenby to stand for the strength that he saw and experienced of the 15th Battalion of the 48th Highlanders during the First War. As I look at it, looking south I can see on the front is a Cross of Sacrifice, and further up is a tower right at the very top. It's intended to suggest a cathedral and on the very top, quite stark and simple, is a Scottish Crown. And you can see in the memorial that it's designed deliberately to strike emotions. It is stark. It is solemn.
As a citizen it's very evocative and emotional, but as a Highlander, and I'm quoting a former Highlander, "It makes me ten feet tall". We mean that, that when we hear the pipes or we see the Regimental Memorial, we have the spirit and the connection with every Highlander that existed.
The cross on the front, on the north side, is called a Cross of Sacrifice. And if you look at it carefully, it's a sword, upside down with its point to the ground. And indeed in religious ceremonies and in churches and in memorial ceremonies, weapons are always turned to the ground, in times of prayer and in times of commemoration. So this Cross of Sacrifice is there to represent those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and those who gave an equal sacrifice and returned home to create the Canada we know.
The monument was erected on the 11th of November in 1923. It was called Armistice Day back then, it has now become known as Remembrance Day. It was a place of honour given the number of people who served with the 48th Highlanders from Toronto and made their mark. The opening on the 11th of November was attended by about 50,000 citizens. It was incredible how they came and surrounded the streets, and Toronto wasn't that large at that time. But the citizenry still remembered the First War and almost everyone knew a 48th Highlander.
On the north side is the regimental motto and a phrase that was placed there in 1923. The regimental motto is "Dileas gu brath", which is the Gaelic for "Faithful Forever". But underneath it in script is written, "To the glorious memory of those who died, and to the undying honour of those who served, this is erected to their regiment, The 48th Highlanders of Canada".
If you hear the pipes coming in the distance it really sends a thrill through you. "Highland Laddie" is the regimental march, and when we're here marching past the Regimental Memorial we always play "Highland Laddie" and it's always a sharp "eyes left" as the regiment goes past. And you can see the young men and women of today's regiment, standing taller, and they reflect every citizenry of Toronto that exists today. And their names go from Quok to Dibi-Irani to all the names that you would expect in downtown Toronto. So, as we reflected the city in 1891, so we reflect the city today.
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North entrance to the Ontario Legislature.
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Designed by Richard Waite of Buffalo, this Romanesque Revival building was completed in 1892, and the first legislative session took place on April 4, 1893.
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