Northern Lights Cemetery, which is surrounded by oak trees, features a Vimy Wall of Remembrance in memory of our military veterans. Some of the funeral plaques, which families purchased and the city had installed in the cemetery, date back to the 1980s. This north Edmonton cemetery was unofficially known as Sturgeon Cemetery before being named Sturgeon Heights Memorial Park in 1986. In 1987, it was renamed Northern Lights Cemetery.
On one side of the Wall of Remembrance, there is space for funeral plaques to be erected in what looks like two pages of a giant book. On the other side of the Wall, there is a battlefield scene featuring a serviceman holding his helmet at a military grave marked with a bayonet and helmet. The serviceman stands in the middle of two tanks, two ships, underneath three airplanes and three bombs. There are plaques on stones along the walkway.
Seven funeral plaques were stolen from the military memorial section of the Northern Lights Cemetery sometime between July 3 and 6, 2018. The thefts were reported to Edmonton Police Services July 7, 2018. The plaques were removed off the back monument and stones along the walkway.
