John Boxtel

Biography

Works

• "The Peacekeeper", a sculpture of a larger than life-size depicting a soldier in uniform carrying his gun in his left hand and a child on his right arm. The sculpture is on the wall in the Royal Military College of Canada library in Kingston, Ontario.
• "To Overcome", a sculpture of the Royal Military College of Canada obstacle course, a gift of the class of 1991.
• "Interned Madonna," depicts a Ukrainian woman internee with two of her children, a swaddled infant boy and a young girl clinging to her mother's dress at the former site of the Spirit Lake Internment Camp, Amos Quebec. This statue was erected on June 16, 2001 in memory of the wives and children imprisoned with their husbands during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920.
• "Why?", a statue of Ukrainian Canadian internee circa 1916 entitled installed at the Castle Mountain internment camp site, in Banff National Park, on 12 August 1995 was erected in memory of those imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920.