Monuments in Canada

Honoring the adaptive athlete's Marathon of Hope.

St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.

The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.

This giant Canadian coin is a monument to the artist who created its iconic emblem.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.