Simple offerings: How the Canadian public remembers the fallen
A look at the old photographs, hand-written notes, decorated wreaths and classroom art projects left at Ottawa’s National War Memorial
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National War Memorial
The monumental politics behind Ottawa’s newest memorials
Two new Ottawa projects will remind tourists of the darkest chapters of 20th-century world history
Timelapse: Remembrance Day at the National War Memorial
Nov. 11, 2014, was unlike any other in the nation’s capital
The complicated task of never forgetting
John Geddes on how Remembrance Day 2014 in Ottawa felt different in the wake of Oct. 22
Why a War of 1812 monument doesn’t belong on Parliament Hill
John Geddes on tradition and the Hill
Misgivings about politically motivated monuments in precious public spaces
John Geddes questions a sculpture to satisfy Turkey, and a unnecessary one for the War of 1812