Concordia’s Road of Remembrance
To honour the Loyola boys who died in the First World War, 36 maple trees were planted on Loyola Campus in 1922 along both sides of Montreal's Sherbrooke Street.
That stretch of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood between West Broadway and Belmore is known as Concordia's Road of Remembrance. Some 300 students of Loyola College — one of Concordia's founding institutions — served in the Great War.
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The trees originally had a metal plaque with the name, rank and details of the death of the Loyola “Old Boy”.
A 37th tree was planted by Loyola High School in 1996 when a search of the records revealed another Loyola victim.
While few of the trees still stand and the plaques have since disappeared, one large maple remains across from the main entrance to campus, serving a reminder of the brave Concordians who fought for Canada.