page_title: Mewata Armouries
section_title: Monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Mewata Armouries / Monuments
caption_attribution_description: English: Calgary Highlanders Monument- Plaque
context_page_description: Mewata Armoury is a Canadian Forces reserve armoury in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mewata is a Cree word meaning "O Be Joyful".
  The building was built between 1915 and 1918 for an original cost of CA$282,051. The building was designed by Thomas W. Fuller and the project was supervised locally by Calgary architect Leo Dowler. The structure was actually built by A. G. Creelman Co. of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  The building is located at 801 11th Street S.W. and is still home to local Militia Units, chiefly The King's Own Calgary Regiment and The Calgary Highlanders, but also 15 Field Ambulance Detachment Calgary, the 41 Canadian Brigade Group Influence Activities Company and various cadet organizations.
context_section_description: The Calgary Highlanders erected and dedicated a Regimental Monument in front of Mewata Armoury in 1998.  The monument takes the form of a Universal Carrier, of the type used by the regiment in the Second World War, painted in the markings of the 1st Battalion.  A plaque dedicates the memorial to all soldiers of the regiment and its predecessors who have "Served Canada in War and Peace."  Regimental Markings included a gold maple leaf on Royal Blue, indicating the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, and a green square indicating the 5th Brigade, upon which was placed the Unit Sign "62" in white.
  Lieutenant Brian S. King, CD, Curator of the Regimental Museum, received permission from 41 Canadian Brigade Group to place a vehicle in front of Mewata Armoury, after discussions in the Museum in 1997.  This form of homage is common in other armouries and military bases across Canada.  Lieutenant King sought out collectors in order to obtain an appropriate vehicle, and negotiations with the Canadian War Museum yielded this fully restored carrier, from the collection of Jack Guthrie, a notable Calgary vehicle collector.  The concrete pad for the carrier was donated by BURNCO and the plaque purchased by the Regimental Funds Foundation through a grant from the Royal Alberta United Services Institute.  The markings were researched and painted by Corporal Michael Dorosh, at that time a clerk with battalion headquarters. The plaque was unveiled by Second World War veterans Sergeant Clarence "Ken" Crockett, DCM and Lance Corporal Floyd Rourke, DCM.
  A second monument was later erected in celebration of 100 years of military engineering in Canada. An M4A2E8 Sherman tank displaying the wartime markings of The King's Own Calgary Regiment including the formation sign of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade was placed atop a Bailey bridge bearing a plaque dedicated by 33rd Field Engineer Squadron. The KOCR mobilized a tank regiment which served with the brigade at Dieppe and in Italy from 1941 to 1945.
caption: Plaque.
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