{“preview_thumbnail”:”/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/hf_zS9pW7Dc.jpg?itok=IbAtPmD2″,”video_url”:”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf_zS9pW7Dc”,”settings”:{“responsive”:1,”width”:”854″,”height”:”480″,”autoplay”:1},”settings_summary”:[“Embedded Video (Responsive, autoplaying).”]} A brief tour of the National Military Cemetery of the Canadian Forces at the Beechwood Cemetery. Section 27 contains the Cross of Sacrifice, a Sherman tank,…

Faith Fyles was born September 30, 1875 in Cowansville, Quebec. Her father was the Reverend Dr. Thomas Fyles, an Anglican clergyman (and entomologist) who came to Canada from England to…

The liberation of the Netherlands, from September 1944 to April 1945, played a key role in the culmination of the Second World War, as the Allied forces closed in on…

ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian…

Since April 2019, Beechwood stepped into its role as the Mortuary Service Provider and Contract Representative of The Department of National Defence’s Casualty Identification Program. The Program was established in…

In 2018, Beechwood purchased from the Royal British Legion, 6 life size Soldier Silhouette is a fitting tribute to the fallen of World War One.  This silhouette campaign marked 100 years since the…

The Beechwood Mausoleum is the magestic stone building that sits on a small hill overlooking Beechwood’s main entrance and the Beechwood National Memorial Center. Construction began in the late 1920s,…

Beechwood Ottawa opened in 1873, fourteen years after Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the capital of the Province of Canada, and six years after Ottawa became the capital of…