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Thank you to reporter Doug Schmidt for the May 10 Windsor Star article on the restoration of the Boer War Memorial in Jackson Park, and to Gene Lotz for his new book, edited by Herb Colling.
I’m not certain if most people in Windsor are aware of the significance of that monument because of the man who created it.
While some are aware that Walter Seymore Allward spent 11 years sculpting the Canadian National Vimy Memorial — a tribute to Canadians killed during the First World War, unveiled in 1936 — he was also the mastermind behind Windsor’s Boer War Memorial Fountain in 1906. Another of his many projects: the two figures — “Truth” and “Justice” — which flank the entrance of the Supreme Court Building in Ottawa, erected in 1914.
Thank you, mayor and council, for recognizing the significance of this memorial.
Percy Hatfield
Former city councillor and MPP
Windsor
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