Located at the entrance to the Chaffeys Lock cemetery, the memory wall was erected by the Chaffey’s Lock and Area Heritage Society to commemorate the founding, building and continuing life of the area. Buried in the cemetery are Samuel Chaffey and his wife Mary Ann as well as 79 labourers, mostly Irish immigrants, who died in the construction of the Rideau Canal. The stones of the memory wall hold plaques inscribed to early families who settled in the area.