The Lakefield District Historical Society of Lakefield, Ontario, Canada, created and maintains this website.  Our objectives are to collect, preserve, exhibit, and publish materials for the study of history, especially the history of Lakefield and its citizens, past and present; and to maintain all the Lakefield Historical Society’s materials.

The Lakefield War Memorial was erected in 1930 by the people of Lakefield and District to perpetuate the memory of their sons who paid the supreme sacrifice in the service of their God and country. It was unveiled and dedicated to the village’s heroic dead on Sunday, June 1, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Colonel Anderson, D.S.O., District Officer, commanding Military District No. 2.

Prayers of dedication were offered by Ven. Archdeacon J.C. Davidson, chaplain of the 93rd Battalion, in the presence of a very large representative gathering of citizens of Lakefield and District, also comrades from the Royal Canadian Legion, the clergy, militia, cadets and school children.

The Cross of Sacrifice memorial, in the form of a Celtic cross, is carved from Canadian gray granite and bears the names of those who died for the cause of freedom. The memorial faces West and is erected on the Town Hall Square. Underneath the cross of Sacrifice, which is chiselled in bold relief on the front of the Cenotaph, is inscribed, “To the Glory of God and the Memory of Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice 1914-1918.”

On September 21, 2024, a new monument was erected to honour all those who served in WW2 and is located immediately southeast of the cenotaph. 

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