- A-8517
- Item
- 1988
Image of the most easterly Memorial Gate.
Image of the most easterly Memorial Gate.
View looking north of the most westerly Memorial Gate; University Hospital in background.
Bio/Historical Note: The Memorial Gates are a military memorial that is part of the University campus. Sixty-seven University students and faculty lost their lives while on service during World War I. The impact of the war on the University was immense: 330 students and faculty served during the War, a number equivalent to nearly all of the students who had registered the year prior to the beginning of the conflict. The desire to honor the staff and students who had fallen during the Great War was strong within the University community. As early as August 1918, 3 months prior to the formal Armistice, University President Walter C. Murray began making enquiries into the cost of a suitable memorial. What was settled upon were gates made of solid bronze, imported from England; the remainder, made of local greystone. Architect David R. Brown estimated the cost of what would come to be known as the Memorial Gates to be $30,000, with an additional $10,000 required for the memorial. The cement work was done by Richard J. Arrand in 1927-1928. A concerted fundraising effort among students and alumni helped cover the costs. The Memorial Gates were unveiled by President Murray and dedicated by the Bishop of Saskatchewan on 3 May 1928. A stone tablet, positioned between the bronze gates, bears the inscription: "These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War and gave their lives that we might live in freedom." For many years after, the site was used for the university’s Remembrance Day services at which wreaths are still laid every November 11th. These Gates were originally the entrance gates to campus and flanked University Drive. In the 1980s, due to increased traffic to the southwest portion of the campus, primarily Royal University Hospital, a new road entrance was built to the west. The gates remain, with the remnant of University Drive passing through them renamed Memorial Crescent. The gates are now primarily used by pedestrians, though the roadway is open to vehicles.
View looking north of a man walking through most easterly Memorial Gate. University Hospital in background; winter scene.
Looking northwest at the Memorial Gates.
View looking northwest of the Memorial Gates. Trees in foreground; shrubbery in front of gates.
View looking north of road through the most westerly Memorial Gate; Memorial tablet visible at right. Trees in foreground; shrubbery in front of gates. Framework for construction of University Hospital visible in background; winter scene.
Looking northeast at the Memorial Gates and Tablet; St. Andrew's College at right.
Looking northwest at the Memorial Gates.
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Nighttime image of Memorial Gates
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Front of Memorial Gates with roadway in foreground; Summer.
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Roadway/sidewalk leading to Memorial Gates; Summer.
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Memorial Gates left-side archway with sidewalk leading to University grounds; Summer.
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Memorial Gates pillar with insignia; Summer.
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Memorial Gates right-side archway with sidewalk and roadway leading to University grounds; Summer.
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View of memorial gates