Feds kill idea to erect Never Forgotten National Memorial, sloppily

Tony Trigiani, the man who spent over $1-million trying to create a monument for Canadian soldiers killed in war and buried overseas, deserves more than an early morning phone call from a bureaucrat cancelling the project.

A drawing of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, called Mother Canada, which was supposed to be built in Cape Breton to honour Canadian soldiers killed in war and buried overseas. But Environment Canada and Parks Canada pulled the plug on it. Drawing courtesy of the Never Forgotten National Memorial

Opinion

BY LEWIS MACKENZIE

March 28, 2016

It was April 2009 and he was on a pilgrimage and close to his birth place in Italy, but because he left for Canada when he was only four years old he really didn't remember very much at all. Perhaps the cemetery off to the right was there back in 1950 when his parents left to settle in Canada, but h...

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