{{short description|Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada}} {{Infobox street | name = Valour Road | marker_image = | alternate_name = | image = ValourRoadMonument.jpg | image_size = | image_map = | caption = The Valour Road mural at Sargent Avenue and Valour Road. | other_name = | former_names = Pine Street | part_of = | type = | maint = | length_km = 2.9 | length_ref = | length_notes = | location = Winnipeg, Manitoba | coordinates = {{coord|49|53|30|N|97|11|18|W|region:CA-MB_scale:10000}} | direction_a = | terminus_a = | direction_b = | terminus_b = | junction = | known_for = Three First World War soldiers who lived on this street were recipients of the Victoria Cross<ref name="a">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/valour-road-victoria-crosses-united-in-winnipeg-for-1st-time-1.2728763 |title=Valour Road Victoria Crosses united in Winnipeg for 1st time |date=August 6, 2014|publisher=CBC News Manitoba |access-date=November 15, 2021}}</ref> }}
'''Valour Road''' is a {{Convert|3|km|mi|abbr=out|adj=on}} street in the West End area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Originally called '''Pine Street''', it was renamed ''Valour Road'' in 1925 to recognize three young men—Corporal Leo Clarke, Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, and Lieutenant Robert Shankland—who all lived in the 700-block and individually received the Victoria Cross for acts of bravery during the First World War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/the-heroes-of-valour-road-winnipeg-750 |title=The Heroes of Valour Road Winnipeg |first=Cameron |last=Scott |date=July 2, 2013 |website=Humanities360.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630124145/http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/the-heroes-of-valour-road-winnipeg-750/ |archive-date=June 30, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Leo Clarke, VC|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leo-clarke|access-date=July 9, 2021|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Winnipeg's Valour Road – Valour Canada|url=https://valourcanada.ca/military-history-library/winnipegs-valour-road/|access-date=July 9, 2021|language=en}}</ref>
Shankland was the only one to survive the war; the other two men were awarded the medal posthumously. Shankland attended the ceremony for the renaming of Pine Street to Valour Road.<ref name=":0" /> All three medals are now on permanent display at the Canadian War Museum in Ontario. The three medals were loaned to the Manitoba Museum in 2014 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War. This marked the first time that all three medals were in Winnipeg at the same time. A memorial statue of the three men is located at the corner of Valour Road and Sargent Avenue. The inscription on the Victoria Cross is "For Valour".<ref name="a" />
The '''Valour Road Commemorative Plaza''' is a Victoria Cross-shaped plaza, located at the corner of Valour Road and Sargent Avenue, commemorating Clarke, Hall, and Shankland. Designed in 2005 by David Wagner Associates, it features four bronze plaques mounted on Tyndall-stone bases accompanied by three metal silhouettes, one for each of the three soldiers. (The fourth plaque commemorates the significance of the Victoria Cross.)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldsborough|first=Gordon |title=Historic Sites of Manitoba: Valour Road Commemorative Plaza (Sargent Avenue, Winnipeg) |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/valourroadplaza.shtml |access-date=July 9, 2021|website=www.mhs.mb.ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Valour Road |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2301105211 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=November 15, 2021}}</ref>
A one-minute ''Heritage Minute'' short film titled "Valour Road" recounted the heroic actions of these three men.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Valour Road {{!}} Historica Canada|url=https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/valour-road|access-date=July 9, 2021|website=www.historicacanada.ca}}</ref> Valour Road is also seen in the 2011 film ''Goon''.{{citation needed |date=November 2021}}
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==External links== {{commonscat}} *[https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/valour-road-0 Canadian Heritage Minute on Valour Road]
== Further reading ==
* Nadler, John. 2014. ''Valour Road''. Viking Canada. ISBN 0670068217. {{Roads in Winnipeg}}
Category:Canada in World War I Category:Streets and squares in Winnipeg Category:Victoria Cross Category:West End, Winnipeg