Spearheaded by Canadian veteran and town resident, Pat O’Rourke, chair of the former Town Council’s Veterans Memorial Committee, the Veterans Memorial Monument was designed, fabricated, and installed in 2014 at Ship’s Point in Outer Cove.  The granite monument was destroyed in March 2017 by a 196 km/hr. hurricane-force wind storm.

Residents and dignitaries had to celebrate July 1st Memorial and November 11, Remembrance Day services in 2017 and the July 1st, 2018 Memorial Day services, without a monument.  

Our Association secured equal funding from the Town and Veterans Affairs Canada, and our engineer worked with the designers of the monument to upgrade the method and material used in the attachment of the three granite columns to withstand winds up to 350km/hr. The monument was restored in time for the November 11, 2018, Remembrance Day service concluding Phase 1 of the restoration. In 2019, the Veterans Memorial Committee became a committee of the Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Development Association. Many thanks to Michelle Hickey for providing the cover picture.

This commemorative monument communicates to our residents, both young and old, the importance of Canadian values of freedom, human rights, and peace, and peacekeeping while creating a “sense of place” at our Outer Cove Veterans Memorial Park for generations to come. Further work on the memorial is being planned - click here to find out now you can help.

"This has been my dream since 1963 to see this monument finally in our town!” Pat O’Rourke at the 2014 Remembrance Day ceremony