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Monday, April 20, 2020

Lieutenant-Colonel John By Memorial Revisited

A statue memorializing Lieutenant-Colonel John By stands in Major's Hill Park to the east of and above the Rideau Canal's lock 3.



LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN BY
Joeseph-Émile Brunet
Sculptor / Sculpteur

Monument commissioned by The
Historical Society of Ottawa and unveiled in 1971

Monument commandé par la
Société historique d'Ottawa et érigé en 1971

Le lt-col. John By, qui domine ice
son œuvre, le canal Rideau, est
aussi le fondateur d'Ottawa,
la capitale du Canada



Artist Joseph-Émile Brunet sculpted this statue.
Joseph-Émile Brunet

JOHN BY
(1779-1836)


Lieutenant-Colonel,
Royal Engineers

Lieutenant-colonel,
ingénieur militaire




Overlooking his Rideau Canal
Lieutenant-Colonel John By is
commemorated here as the founding
father of Ottawa, Canada's Capital