Alexandra Park located at Second Street and First Avenue, was planned in 1901, and was officially opened in August 1903. It was named after Queen Alexandra. The park was built on the site of the former town stockyards that held cattle brought to the weekly market at the Town Hall. In 1923, the Dufferin County War memorial was constructed in the park, and unveiled at November 11 Remembrance Day services that year. The park is the home for the Town's cenotaph, a bandshell (built in 1922), a farmers' market and a Ceteran's memorial (built in 2003) honouring those who served and returned from the First and Second World Wars, and Korea War.
The figure by Nicolas Pirotton of a soldier with the rifle resting on the left shoulder and a grenade in his right, appears in bronze in Orangeville (1924). It is said to have been modelled as a portrait of Major Thain Wendell MacDowell, a local man who had been awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Vimy Ridge. The figure was cast by the Allis Chalmers Company of Toronto.
