Monday, October 21, 2019

RCMP National Memorial

The RCMP National Memorial stands outside the RCMP National Headquarters on the east side of Leikin Drive between Bill Leathem Drive and Beckstead Road.


ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE
NATIONAL MEMORIAL

COMMISSIONER JAMES ALEXANDER
FARQUHARSON MACLEOD
1876 - 1880

UNVEILED BY
COMMISSIONER GIULIANO ZACCARDELLI
NOVEMBER 11, 2005

COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE
COMPLEMENTS OF
THE MOUNTED POLICE FOUNDATION


GENDERMERIE ROYALE DU CANADA
MONUMENT COMMÉMORATIF NATIONAL

LE COMMISSAIRE JAMES ALEXANDER
FARQUHARSON MACLEOD
1876 - 1880

DÉVOILÉ PAR
LE COMMISSAIRE GUILIANO ZACCARDELLI
LE 11 NOVEMBRE 2005

PLAQUE COMMÉMORATIVE
HOMMAGE DE
LA FONDATION DE LA POLICE MONTÉE


IN HONOUR OF THOSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY

This RCMP National Memorial was relocated
to the new RCMP Headquarters in October 2013.

Rededicated by Commissioner Bob Paulson on November 19, 2013.

We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet shall sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible.


1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-52


EN HOMMAGE À CEUX ET CELLES QUI ONT FAIT LE SACRIFICE
DE LEUR VIE DANS L'EXERCICE DE LEURS FONCTIONS

Ce monument commémoratif national de la GRC a été réinstallé
au nouveau complexe de la Direction générale de la GRC en octobre 2013.

Réinauguré par la commissaire Bob Paulson le 19 novembre 2013.

Nous ne mourrons pas tous, mais tous nous serons changés,
en un instant, en un clin d'oeil, à la dernière trompette.
La trompette sonnera, et les morts ressusciteront incorruptibles.


1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-52







The statue depicts Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander Farquharson Macleod (1836-1894), third Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police, from July 22, 1876, to October 31, 1880. Artists and sculptors Don Begg and Shirley Stephens-Begg of Studio West Ltd. produced this bronze sculpture.