Queen Elizabeth Way Monument
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Queen Elizabeth Way Monument is a memorial originally located at the Toronto end of the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). The monument was designed by architect W.I. Sommerville, sculptor Frances Loring, and Frances Wyle helped model the royal profiles and crown.
It was dedicated 1939 during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the namesake of the highway). It consists of a column with a crown at the top and a lion at the base. The monument was moved in the mid 1970s in order to accommodate widening of the original QEW, and is now located in the nearby Sir Casimir Gzowski Park along Lake Ontario, on the east side of the Humber River, with re-dedication in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth, by then the Queen Mother.
Also along the QEW is the decorative stone pillar on the eastern approach to the Henley Bridge in St. Catharines, Ontario. It was also dedicated by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. There are two monuments of the bridge (east and west approach) consisting of four regal lions and each bearing a unique shield. A pillar is located on the opposite side of each monument with a sailboat motif on the west pillar.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
|
||||||||||||||
