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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Henry Albert Harper

April 28, 2013

The plaque on this memorial reads:

Erected by the public to commemorate the heroism of Henry Albert Harper MA who in an effort to save the life of Miss Bessie Blair was drowned with her in the Ottawa River on the sixth of December, 1901 in his twenty-eighth year.



Galahad . . . .
cried, "If I lose myself
I save myself."
Tennyson, The Holy Grail

Erected by the public to commemorate
the heroism of
Henry Albert Harper MA
who in an effort to save the life
of Miss Bessie Blair was drowned
with her in the Ottawa river on the
sixth of December 1901 in his twenty
eighth year.