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.

An 18.9-meter tower that pays tribute to the Pennsylvania-German pioneers who settled the Waterloo Region between 1800 and 1803.

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.