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While Civil War memorials may not be the most popular things lately, the world’s newest monument to the American Civil War has just opened in Canada.

The granite obelisk is Canada’s only monument to the 1860s conflict, and honours more than 40,000 Civil War soldiers who hailed from what would become modern-day Canada.

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“At the time, there were as many in the (Canadian) military as volunteered to fight in the Civil War,” said Bob McLachlan, president of the Grays and Blues of Montreal, a Quebec-based Civil War re-enactment group involved with the monument’s creation.

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Approximately 7,000 Canadians are believed to have died in the war. This means that, to this day, the Civil War killed more Canadians than any other conflict except the two world wars.

For context, 26,000 Canadian troops fought in the Korean War and more than 500 were killed. In the 12 years of Canada’s deployment to Afghanistan, a total of 40,000 served and 159 have been killed.