A new memorial in Barrie pays tribute to the 96 Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, awarded for bravery valour and devotion to duty, or self-sacrifice, in the face of the enemy.
Click on a name to read more about each soldier.
Second World War
- Ian Bazalgette (Calgary AB)
- Aubrey Cosens (Latchford ON)
- David Vivian Currie (Sutherland SK)
- John Weir Foote (Madoc ON)
- Robert Hampton Gray (Trail BC)
- Charles Ferguson Hoey (Duncan BC)
- David Ernest Hornell (Toronto ON)
- John Keefer Mahony (New Westminster BC)
- Charles Merritt (Vancouver BC)
- Andrew Mynarski (Winnipeg MB)
- John Robert Osborn (Foulden England)
- Frederick Thornton Peters (Charlottetown PEI)
- Ernest Alvia Smith (New Westminster BC)
- Frederick Albert Tilston (Toronto ON)
- Frederick George Topham (Toronto ON)
- Paul Triquet (Cabano QC)
First World War
- Wallace Lloyd Algie (Alton, ON)
- William George Barker (Dauphin, MB)
- Colin Fraser Barron (Baldavie, Scotland)
- Edward Donald Bellew (Bombay, India)
- Philip Eric Bent (Halifax, NS)
- William Avery Bishop (Owen Sound, ON)
- Alexander Picton Brereton (Oak River, MB)
- Jean Brillant (Assemetquaghan, QC)
- Harry Brown (Gananoque, ON)
- Hugh Cairns (Ashington, England)
- Frederick W. Campbell (Mount Forest, ON)
- Leo Clarke (Waterdown, ON)
- William Hew Clark-Kennedy (Dunskay, Scotland)
- Robert Grierson Combe (Aberdeen, Scotland)
- Frederick George Coppins (London, England)
- John Bernard Croak (Little Bay, NL)
- Robert Edward Cruickshank (Winnipeg, MB)
- Edmund De Wind (County Down, Ireland)
- Thomas Fasti Dinesen (Rungsted, Denmark)
- Frederick Fisher (St. Catharine’s ON)
- Gordon M. Flowerdew (Billingford, ON)
- Herman James Good (South Bathurst, NB)
- Milton Fowler Gregg (Mountain Dale, NB)
- Frederick William Hall (Kilkenny, Ireland)
- Robert Hanna (Kilkeel, Ireland)
- Frederick M.W. Harvey (Athboy, Ireland)
- Frederick Hobson (London, England)
- Thomas William Holmes (Montreal, QC)
- Samuel Lewis Honey (Conn, ON)
- Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson (Mount Carmel, U.S.)
- Joseph Kaeble (St-Moise, QC)
- George Fraser Kerr (Deseronto, ON)
- John Chipman Kerr (Fox River, NS)
- Cecil John Kinross (Uxbridge, England)
- Arthur George Knight (Haywards Heath, England)
- Filip Konowal (Kedeski, Russia)
- Okill M. Learmonth (Quebec City, QC)
- Graham Thomson Lyall (Manchester, England)
- Thain W. MacDowell (Lachute, QC)
- John MacGregor (Cawdor, Scotland)
- George Burdon McKean (Wellington, England)
- Hugh McKenzie (Liverpool, England)
- Alan Arnett McLeod (Winnipeg, MB)
- William Merrifield (Brentwood, England)
- William Henry Metcalf (Waite Township, U.S.)
- William Johnstone Milne (Cambusnethan, Scotland)
- Harry Garnet Bedford Miner (Cedar Springs, ON)
- Coulson Norman Mitchell (Winnipeg, MB)
- George Harry Mullin (Portland, U.S.)
- Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney (Dublin, Ireland)
- Christopher P.J. O'Kelly (Winnipeg, MB)
- Michael James O'Rourke (Limerick, Ireland)
- John George Pattison (Woolwich, England)
- George Randolph Pearkes (Watford, England)
- Cyrus Wesley Peck (Hopewell Hill, NB)
- Walter Leigh Rayfield (Richmond-on-Thames, England)
- James C. Richardson (Bellshill, Scotland)
- Thomas Ricketts (Middle Arm, NL)
- James Peter Robertson (Pictou County, NS)
- Charles Smith Rutherford (Colborner, ON)
- Francis A.C. Scrimger (Montreal, QC)
- Robert Shankland (Ayr, Scotland)
- Ellis Wellwood Sifton (Wallacetown, ON)
- John Alexander Sinton (Victoria, BC)
- Robert Spall (Ealing, England)
- Harcus Strachan (Borrowstounness, Scotland)
- James Edward Tait (Maxwelltown, Scotland)
- Thomas O.L. Wilkinson (Limerick, Ireland)
- John Francis Young (Kidderminster, England)
-
Raphael Louis Zengel (Faribault, U.S.)
The South African (Boer) War
- Hampden Z.C. Cockburn (Toronto, ON)
- Edward J.G. Holland (Ottawa, ON)
- William Henry Snyder Nickerson (Dorchester, NB)
- Arthur H.L. Richardson (Southport, England)
-
Richard E.W. Turner (Quebec City, QC)
Prior To The South African War
