This is a memorial for the millions of Ukrainians who died in the genocidal famines of 1932 and 1933. It was a gift to the city from the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. It stands in front of Winnipeg City Hall.
The Holocaust Memorial is on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature. The names of the 3,700 Holocaust victims, memorialized on the monument's walls, all had surviving family members living in Manitoba.
This memorial statue honours Andrew Mynarski a young man from Winnipeg who won the Victoria Cross during World War I for his courage in saving a fellow airman after their plane had been shot down. Andrew died in the attempt. His statue is in Vimy Ridge Park.
This stone in Michaëlle Jean Park is a memorial to murdered and missing Indigenous Women and Girls, Men and Boys and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Two-Spirited People.
There is a statue on Winnipeg's Memorial Boulevard that pays tribute to the women who served in Canada's Armed Forces during World War I and II.
A plaque at this pocket park beside the Provencher Bridge explains it was built to honour the memory of Lyle Thomas. Lyle was a sixteen year old worker who was killed on July 26, 2001, during the construction of the Provencher Bridge.
This stone in Benjaminson Park serves as a memorial to Skuli Benjaminson (1879-1970) a pioneer who owned one of the first homes in the nearby area. He helped chop down trees so Portage Avenue could be built and was instrumental in bringing power lines into his community.
My husband in Toilers Park posing with a memorial to the Toilers Basketball team from Winnipeg. They were Canadian champions in the 1920s and 1930s. The memorial has a special section that pays tribute to two team members killed in a plane crash in 1933.
This statue of William Stephenson is on Memorial Boulevard. It pays tribute to a man born and raised in Winnipeg who became a famous spy during World War II with the code name Intrepid. He has been memorialized in movies and the novels of Ian Fleming.
This memorial near my home pays tribute to an urban design coordinator named Edward Letinsky who died in 1980. It was his idea to develop the downtown area we now call The Exchange District into a dining and entertainment destination.
Winnipeg has many interesting and educational memorials and these ten are just a sampling of the hundreds that could be written about.
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