What Remains: Repatriating and Entombing a Canadian Unknown Soldier of the Great War in the Nation's Capital

摘要

This article chronicles and contextualizes the creation of a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Canada's capital. In so doing, it traces the myriad considerations, as well as complexities - political, procedural, and practical - that abounded in bringing this major memorial installation into being, namely the repatriation, from a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, of a Canadian unknown soldier of the Great War and his ceremonial reburial in Ottawa. Moreover, it argues that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, situated within an existing monumental space, functions, in the coinage of geographer Owen Dwyer, as an allied symbolic accretion to the National War Memorial.