[1] The Sir Wilfrid Laurier Memorial was constructed in 1953 by Joseph-Émile Brunet on the southern side of Dorchester Square, facing towards the United States.

Wilfrid Laurier was a proponent of an early free-trade agreement with the United States and wanted to develop a more continental economic orientation.

Macdonald is enshrined in a stone baldachin emblazoned with copper reliefs of the various agricultural and industrial trades.

Laurier stands with the shelter of the massive trees which characterize the square, a granite relief of the provinces created and united under his administrations opposite a bas-relief of man and woman sharing the harvest.

In the end, public demand won through, with Canada sending 7,300 Canadians to South Africa, of which roughly one-third were official contingents.