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Memorial Number: 59026-004
Type: garden
Location: Stanley Park
Vancouver, BC
Surveyor: Thomas Donovan; Julie Clements
Photo Credit: Thomas Donovan
The Air Force Garden of Remembrance, also known as the Air Force Grove, was established by the Women’s Auxiliary to Air Services in 1948 to commemorate the airmen who gave their lives in the Second World War. It is a shade garden, contributing to the contemplative tone of the memorial. It is also a rock garden, and features the planting of various species of flowers and shrubs around a small stream and pond, set off by flagstone steps and path. The garden is a living memorial, symbolic of the sacrifice of the armed forces. There are a variety of plaques placed throughout the garden.
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AIR FORCE
GARDEN OF
REMEMBRANCE
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ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION
802 (DOGWOOD) WING SEPT. 13, 1981
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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1939 1945
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED
BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN
AIR FORCE TO HONOUR THE
MEMORY OF SERVING MEMBERS
WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES.
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ROYAL AUSTRALIAN
AIR FORCE
