PETAWAWA — The Petawawa German Settlers Monument, a cairn first erected in 1967 to commemorate the Lutheran pioneers who established homesteads on the Petawawa Plains, has been relocated from its longtime home along Highway 17 to the Petawawa Heritage Village.

Also known as the German Pioneer Memorial, the stone monument was originally dedicated during Canada’s Centennial as a project supported by Garrison Petawawa. It stands in tribute to the German settlers who, beginning in the 1870s, carved farms and homes out of the wilderness before their land was later expropriated by the federal government for the creation of Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in 1905. The only remaining part of that community is a small cemetery on Brindle Road, which today lies within Department of National Defence

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