25th Annual MACP Police & Peace Officer Memorial
Sunday, September 24th, 2023
11:00 AM
Manitoba's Fallen Correctional Officers
Rhonda Commodore
November 6, 2014
Died in a motor vehicle collision while transporting inmates from The Pas to Dauphin.
Werner R. Friesen
July 13, 1984
Fatally stabbed by inmates while attempting to lock them up at the end of the night.
Joseph Wendl
July 13, 1984
Fatally stabbed by inmates while attempting to lock them up at the end of the night.
Stanley Green
July 22, 1974
While working as an instructor, he was attacked by an inmate in the carpentry shop.
Edwin Pearse
November 11, 1943
Attacked by three youth males while they escaped from Vaughan Street Jail.
John Williams
June 25, 1926
While supervising an inmate work group he was struck by blasting rock.
Anton Martinsen Fladeby
May 11, 1919
Attacked in the hallway outside the barbershop by inmate an American inmate who was serving a three-year sentence for forgery.
Never Forgotten
Manitoba Memorial Monuments
Located on the northeast corner of Broadway Avenue and Osborne Street North. (MAP), the memorial is a combined tribute to Manitoba Peace and Police Officers, Firefighters, and Labour Workers.
Construction began in 2020 and includes a reflecting pool where visitors can pause to remember the fallen. The Police/Peace Officer and Firefighter granite slabs have the names of the fallen inscribed on the back.
