LOCAL HISTORY

Dedication of the War Memorial, 1930 Photos: Paris Museum & Historical Society

The Paris War Memorial was dedicated on November 11, 1930 For this important ceremony, the area around the Cenotaph was crowded with veterans, town officials, wives and mothers of ''fallen" soldiers, the bands of the 18th Dragoons and the Dufferin

Rifles, a choir of 300 elementary school pupils, the high school pupils, and citizens. After the address of welcome by Mayor Isaac Stewart, Lt.-Col. the Venerable Archdeacon F.G. Scott delivered the dedicatory speech. The dedicatory prayer was delivered by Major the Reverend W F McConnell

According to the Paris Star, 'he beseeched the Lord to take away the armies and hatred which cause men and nations to make war.' Rev. Father McGoey pronounced the benediction.