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