This piece of cultural heritage[1] has become emblematic of the city of Sherbrooke,[citation needed] which counts it among its ten main "points of interest".

[4] In November 1925, Colonel Arthur Huffman McGreer, Principal of Bishop's University, suggested including the list of Sherbrooke soldiers who fell during World War I.

[4] The final list, engraved on a bronze plate, comprises 248 names, published in La Tribune the day before the monument was inaugurated.

On 7 November 1926, eight years after the end of the war, the monument was officially opened by the Mayor of Sherbrooke at the time, James Keith Edwards, before more than 20,000 people.

The newspapers of the time show that the crowd remained calmed with the intensity of the moment and the beauty of the statue, when the white sheet covering was removed.