Peacekeeping Monument

The Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa honors Canada's contribution to international peacekeeping missions and the soldiers who took part in them. Completed in 1992 and known as "Reconciliation," the monument stands in a central spot at the intersection of Mackenzie Avenue and Sussex Drive, just south of the National Gallery. It depicts three peacekeepers standing on stone chambers that rise out of the rubble of war and converge at a high point. This form symbolizes the reconciliation achieved through peacekeeping. At the base, a 1956 quotation from Lester Pearson on the creation of a UN peacekeeping force is inscribed in English and French.