Source: CTV News Staff, May 24, 2018
The First World War claimed the lives of two sitting Canadian MPs, but until now, only one had been immortalized in the House of Commons.
Killed in Belgium during the Battle of Mount Sorrel in June 1916, Lt.-Col. George Baker was commemorated with a statue in 1924. Lt-Col. Samuel Simpson Sharpe, however, had largely been forgotten after his death by suicide in 1918 following his service.
“The community has really wanted to see this historical wrong corrected,” Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell said in the House of Commons Thursday.
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