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A collection of 13 issues

ADF Chaplains honoured

THE NATIONAL DEFENCE CHAPLAINS' MEMORIAL GROVE DESIGNED and erected by Brisbane City Council, this serene civic space is the first memorial to honour the gallantry, sacrifice, dedication to duty and commitment of our military Chaplains to the spiritual and material wellbeing of Australian Defence Force personnel — alongside of whom

Canon Garland Overpass

A COMMUNITY-BASED campaign to honour the memory of the Queenslander who gave ANZAC Day to the world has culminated in the renaming of a bridge at Toowong. The Queensland Transport and Main Roads Department (DTMR) rebadged the Toowong Cycle and Pedestrian Overpass to “Canon Garland Overpass” a year after an

A New Day.

Canon Garland Memorial. has picked up the baton from where the Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated left at the end of 2018. In these following pages we trust you will discover resources and information about the ongoing legacy of the late Reverend Canon David John Garland OBE, the “Architect of

Welcome!

Canon Garland Memorial (formerly known as the “Canon Garland Memorial Society” or “CGMS”) welcomes you. Canon Garland Memorial – ANZAC Day Origins was officially unveiled, dedicated and handed over by CGMS to the People of the City of Brisbane in a ceremony at Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park, heralding Centenary

The Pectoral Cross journey

I am very pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to the Pectoral Cross presented to my Great-Uncle, the Reverend Canon David Garland [ David John Garland ]. I send it to you in Brisbane with a sense of enormous joy that, after almost 80 years it returns, for a short

New E-petition circulating

Honouring a legend “Coo-ee!” Would you like to see the Queenslander who gave Anzac Day to the world prominently honoured in Brisbane’s western suburbs this Centenary of Armistice year? Click the link below to open the Queensland Parliament E-Petition and join the grassroots campaign to make this proposed tribute

Congrats Ross!

OUR GRIFFITH AUSTRALIADAY AWARD WINNER AT a well attended public ceremony staged this afternoon at Souths Leagues Club, West End, Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated Vice-President, Ross Hielscher, was presented with a Griffith Australia Day Award by the Federal Member for Griffith, Ms Terri Butler MP. Here is what the

Congrats Constantine!

The Australia Day Achievement Awardcitation for Constantine (Con) Drozdovskii Born to a Russian father and Greek mother, Con moved to Brisbane as a child and has now become a spokesperson for the Ethnic Russian Community. Proud of his Russian Orthodox Christian faith, over the past 50 years Con has become

Remembrance Day Family Concert

A remembrance and a celebration – towards a review By CON DROZDOVSKII of Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated IF you missed last night’s outdoor concert at Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park – preferring instead to sit in front of the idiot box – then you missed something truly beautiful and unique. Imagine, if

Canon Garland Place unveiled

ATTENTION NEWSROOMS: Council continues to honour ANZAC heroes Lord Mayor Graham Quirk will today unveil two major commemorative projects that honour Australia’s fallen war heroes ahead of Remembrance Day. A new lawn at Toowong Cemetery will be opened and officially named after the ‘architect of ANZAC Day’, Canon David