TO MARK OUR PLACE: A HISTORY OF CANADIAN WAR MEMORIALS. Shipley, Robert. Foreword by Pierre Berton. Original photography by David Street. Toronto, NC Press, 1987. 200pp, cloth. $24.95. ISBN 1-55021-014-9. CIP Grades 7 and up Reviewed by Lois Hird Volume 16 Number 4 1988 July To Mark Our Place documents every monument or memorial built in honour of Canadian soldiers. The reader learns of community plans to build the memorials after World War I. the reasons for the choice of inscription, and in some instances the costs involved. Historical photographs, together with Toronto photographer David Street's black-and-white photographs, enhance the text. Calling the memorials a "people's response." the author asks the reader to consider them as objects concerned with peace and life, even though the "monuments in Canada may not represent an exciting group of state-of-the-art sculptures of their time." Shipley challenges art critics' responses that the monuments are not "worthy of study." He responds by staling that the monuments have never been studied in a serious way, primarily because of their age and the subject matter itself. Shipley's careful research has enabled him to prepare a list of over 1,200 locations of monuments across Canada and an alphabetized glossary. Each chapter has end-notes. The book also has an alphabetized index. Lois Hird, Calgary, Alta.