Angel of Victory

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the “Great War.” More than 600,000 Canadians served during WWI, risking their lives. At the Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver, the ‘Angel of Victory’ by Montreal sculptor, Coeur de Lion MacCarthy, depicts a winged angel lifting a young soldier to Heaven at the moment of his death. This is what the plaque at the base of this statue reads: "To commemorate those in the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company who, at the call of king and country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardship, faced danger and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freesom. Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten."