On July 5, 1996 a Candle Light Vigil was held, then the official dedication on July 6, 1996 Melocheville, Quebec Canada. This was also the first “Cross Border Run” which is now an annual event with many American Vietnam Veterans crossing the border into Canada to commemorate with their Canadian brothers and sisters.

Of the more than 58,000 names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., 103 of them are of “known” Canadians who served with United States forces and the seven who went missing in action. Although the United States has honored those fallen Canadians who did not return from the Vietnam War, their own native country has never officially done so.

Canadian Vietnam Veterans Association is a non-lucrative association representing Canadians who served, under the American flag, in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam war from 1964 to 1975

Jacques Gendron, Vietnam Vet, CVVQ

Rolling Thunder® National members Jay Fairlamb and Bob “Boots” Berg place a wreath at the Memorial

Royal Canadian Legion Members

Hal and Maddy Laffin reading the names of the fallen

This monument site in Melocheville Quebec is totally financed by the CVVQ Association thanks to its faithful members and contributors. This historical site is dedicated to those who died in action, those who are still missing and those who proudly served in Vietnam during the war.

Paying tribute to our Canadian Brothers

Canadian Peter C. Lemon was the recipient of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor in the Vietnam War.

Seven Canadians still remain listed as Missing in Action

Nam Knights pay tribute to the Canadian Vietnam Veterans -
Memorial Dedicated 7/6/1996 Melocheville Canada - Over 100 Canadians died in Vietnam

Jacques Gendron, Vietnam Vet, and Gilles Sauve CVVQ present awards of thanks and appreciation.

Canadian Legion Mohawk 219 Branch, on the Kahnawake reservation has always hosted the visitors of the Cross Border Run.

Kahnawake hosts the 'Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow' in July each year. Part of a Six Nations Confederacy.

The Mohawk Indians have a long warrior tradition and in modern times they’ve served in both the Canadian and American Armed Services

In counter-current to the movement of American draft-dodgers and deserters to Canada, about 30,000 Canadians volunteered to fight in southeast Asia. Among the volunteers were fifty Mohawks from the Kahnawake reservation.

Leo ‘GOOSE’ Petahtegoose from Maidstone, Ontario, Vietnam Vet. My good friend died of pulmonary fibrosis in October 2005.

Another Canadian Vietnam Memorial "The North Wall" in Windsor, Ontario, Canada was erected on July 2, 1995. Near the U.S. border this memorial, The North Wall, at Assumption Park, Windsor, Ontario, overlooking the Detroit River. This was all made possible through the efforts of a small group of American Vietnam Veterans from Michigan, Ric Gidner, Ed Johnson and later Chris Reynolds joined in.