Outer Wall Facing Ontario Hall
Remembrance Day 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, yet, a century on, the memories linger. Leading up to the centenary, Queen’s University is participating in The World Remembers, a powerful and timely expression of remembrance and reconciliation.
Led by award-winning Canadian actor R.H. Thomson and lighting designer Martin Conboy, the international event features the names of all war dead who were killed in 1918, regardless of which nation they were fighting for.
Through the project, all 1,003,167 names of soldiers, nurses, and other military personnel who were killed in 1918 will be projected onto the outer wall of Grant Hall (which was a military hospital in 1918), facing Ontario Hall. Of those names 23,731 are Canadian and 78 were members of the Queen’s community.
To learn more about Queen’s and the First World War, visit the Queen’s University Archives website and read more on The World Remembers website.
