The Road of Remembrance

"As late as 1922, Sherbrooke Street, from Westhill Avenue westward, was relatively
bare of house and trees.

It was decided to make it a "Road of Remembrance." Hundreds of maple trees were
planted to line both sides of the street in memory of those who gave their lives in the
First World War. The thirty-six trees which now directly face Loyola were set apart,
each one to grow with individual honour to the thirty-six Loyola Old Boys who made
the supreme sacrifice."
Text from Loyola and Montreal, Tim Slattery, 1962

Road of Remembrance, Gil Drolet

While researching for his 1996 publication, "Loyola, The Wars: In Remembrance
of  "Men for Others", Dr. Gil Drolet discovered an omission from the 1914-1918
list of Loyola men killed in action. The name of Lieutenant John Howe
(Class of 1900), who died of a sniper's bullet on April 25, 1916, does not appear
on the Loyola Memorial tablet, nor was a 37th tree planted in his name.

 Loyola Centennial Project

In 1996, as a Centennial project, the students of Loyola High School planted a
sapling Maple tree in honour of Lieutenant John Howe. The tree is located inside
the black metal fence to the left of the parking lot on the east side of the high
school on Sherbrooke Street.

On November 11, 2005, a war memorial was dedicated
to the young Loyola men killed in action in World War I

"May God's perpetual light shine upon them."