{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2026}}{{Short description|Military monument in Ontario, Canada}} {{Infobox military memorial |name=Valiants Memorial |native_name=Monument aux Valeureux |body=Canadian Heritage, National Capital Commission, Valiants Foundation<ref>{{cite press release|title=Valiants Memorial Unveiled|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2006/11/valiants-memorial-unveiled.html|publisher=Government of Canada|date=6 November 2006|access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref> |image=300px |caption=Five busts on the west side of the memorial represent each of the five military periods |commemorates=fourteen key figures from the military history of the country |unveiled=5 November 2006 |coordinates={{coord|45.4244|N|75.6952|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=Valiants Memorial}} |location=Ottawa, Ontario Canada |designer=Marlene Hilton Moore, John McEwen}} The '''Valiants Memorial''' ({{langx|fr|'''Monument aux Valeureux'''}}) is a military monument located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It commemorates fourteen key figures from the military history of Canada. Dedicated by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on 5 November 2006,<ref>{{cite news|author=Bill Curry|date=6 November 2006|title=Memorial marks valiant efforts|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/memorial-marks-valiant-efforts/article1109194/|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref> the work consists of nine busts and five statues, all life-sized, by artists Marlene Hilton Moore and John McEwen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1443025435856|title=Valiants Memorial|date=7 June 2016|publisher=Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada|access-date=26 March 2017|archive-date=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916153544/http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1443025435856|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The monument was installed around the Sappers Staircase, an underpass on the northeastern corner of Confederation Square, adjacent to the National War Memorial. The wall of the staircase is decorated with a quotation from the ''Aeneid'' by Virgil:<ref>{{cite book|author=David Williams|year=2009|title=Media, Memory, and the First World War|series=McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 48|location=Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|pages=286–287|isbn=978-0-7735-3507-7}}</ref> : "''Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo''"<ref>Vergilius, ''Aeneis'', IX, 447 : : Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, (446) : '''nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo''', (447) : dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum (448) : accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit. (449) The same verse, in an English translation, is now engraved on a wall in the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time".</ref> which translates to "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time" (French: ''Aucun jour ne t'effacera jamais de la mémoire du temps'').
The heroes commemorated in the monument are:
*'''From the French Regime (1534–1763):''' {| style="font-size:90%;width:60%;border:2px;text-align:left;line-height:150%;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="50%" | Hero ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="20%" | Type ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="30%" | Image |- |Le comte de Frontenac | bust | 50px |- |Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville | statue | 50px |- |}
*'''From the American Revolution (1775–1783):''' {| style="font-size:90%;width:60%;border:2px;text-align:left;line-height:150%;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="50%" | Hero ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="20%" | Type ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="30%" | Image |- |Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) | statue | 50px |- |John Butler | bust | 50px |- |}
*'''From the War of 1812 (1812–1815):''' {| style="font-size:90%;width:60%;border:2px;text-align:left;line-height:150%;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="50%" | Hero ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="20%" | Type ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="30%" | Image |- |Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, KB | bust | 50px |- |Charles de Salaberry | statue | 50px |- |Laura Secord | statue | 50px |- |}
*'''From the First World War (1914–1918):''' {| style="font-size:90%;width:60%;border:2px;text-align:left;line-height:150%;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="50%" | Hero ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="20%" | Type ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="30%" | Image |- |Georgina Pope | bust | 50px |- |General Sir Arthur Currie, GCMG, KCB | statue | 50px |- |Corporal Joseph Kaeble, VC, MM | bust | 50px |- |}
*'''From the Second World War (1938–1945):''' {| style="font-size:90%;width:60%;border:2px;text-align:left;line-height:150%;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="50%" | Hero ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="20%" | Type ! style="background: #f2f2f2; color: #000080" width="30%" | Image |- |Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC |bust | 50px |- |Captain John Wallace Thomas, CBE | bust | 50px |- |Major Paul Triquet, VC, CD | bust | 50px |- |Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, VC | bust | 50px |- |}
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