Alberta

This memorial is dedicated to those who fought in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.

In 1925, the War Memorial Committee, along with the Alumni Association acting as the finance committee, raised the $12,000 to purchase and dedicate the University War Memorial Pipe Organ, which sits in Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta. The organ is dedicated to 80 University of Alberta comrades who gave up their lives during the First World War. In 1947, after twenty-three years of use, the pipe organ was thoroughly cleaned and reconditioned.

Erected in 1925 by Casavant Frères, a Canadian pipe organ company, the organ is in memory of the 80 University of Alberta comrades who gave up their lives during WWI. There are also tablets near the entrance of the Convocation hall with the names of the students, staff, and alumni who did not return from the First and Second World Wars.

This memorial is dedicated to those who served their country. It was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Strathcona Branch 150. In the future, they would like to include a photo and a short biography of each member. They wish to have everyone read about those who have passed and never forget them. This memorial was originally located in front of the legion at 10416 - 82 Avenue. However, it was vandalized in 2005 and a similar memorial was constructed at the new location.

The Milners represent an outstanding example of Alberta’s service to Canada’s military. Seven family members, including fathers, brothers and wives, served from the First World War to Stanley Milner’s work with the South Alberta Light Horse Regiment. Stanley Milner exemplified his family’s commitment to the military, serving in the 2nd Battalion, Saskatoon Light Infantry and the Canadian Officer Training Program. He also served as Honourary Colonel of the South Alberta Light Horse Regiment and founded the South Alberta Light Horse Regiment Foundation, a group which preserves regimental history and provides support for retired soldiers and military families. He was also a successful businessman, city alderman and philanthropist

In 1996, the library was officially renamed the Stanley A. Milner Library in his honour.

This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War.

The Battle of Cambrai in northern France took place from 27 September to 11 October 1918, during the First World War. The battle was among the Canadian Corps' most impressive tactical victories of the war, particularly because of the Canadians' skillful use of military engineers. It was part of a series of connected battles at the start of the Hundred Days Campaign, which would lead to the defeat of Germany and the end the war.

This street commemorates those who fought at the Bay of Biscay during the Second World War.

With the fall of France in 1940 the French ports on the Bay of Biscay became a major base of operations for the German submarine fleet. To transit into the Atlantic the submarines had to first cross the Bay and thus it became a significant battlefield of the Second World War.

On 18 August 1944, HMCS Kootenay, a part of Escort Group 11 (Captain J.D. Prentice, Royal Canadian Navy), picked up a radar contact 60 miles off of the French port of La Rochelle. That proved to be the opening move of an 8-hour long struggle between Ottawa, Kootenay and Chaudière and the German submarine U 621. Although oil and wreckage came to the surface there had been no definite proof of a kill when EG 11 was ordered to return to Plymouth. The following morning HMCS Chaudière was ordered by headquarters in Plymouth to return to the scene of the action to make further searches. Diligence was rewarded when Chaudière obtained a firm radar contact and made an attack with Hedgehog (depth charges). The result was a massive explosion as well as wreckage and patches of dense oil.

The Canadian ships were now directed to leave the Bay of Biscay for Londonderry. As they proceeded north, past the port of Brest, another radar contact was made and attacked. Again there were no signs of wreckage and eventually the ships were told to break off the engagement. It was only after the war had ended that they were to discover that they had also sunk U 984.

This street commemorates those who fought in the Battle of Ypres during the First World War.

This street is named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, the Canadian soldier, a doctor and teacher, who wrote In Flanders Fields during the First World War. Born in Guelph, Ontario in 1872, he served with an artillery battery in the South African War and had a successful civilian medical career. When the First World War broke out in 1914, the patriotic 41-year-old enlisted again and would be appointed as a medical officer with the First Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery.

During the Second Battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915, McCrae was tending to the wounded in a part of Belgium traditionally called Flanders. On May 2, a close friend was killed in action and this painful loss inspired McCrae to write In Flanders Fields the next day. It would be published in Britain’s Punch magazine and quickly became one of the best-known poems of the war, helping make the poppy an international symbol of remembrance. Sadly, Lieutenant-Colonel McCrae would not survive the conflict, dying of illness in January 1918.

This street commemorates those who fought at Sicily in the Second World War.

The assault on Sicily was to be the prelude to the invasion of mainland Europe. The invasion was assigned to the Seventh U.S. Army under Lieut.-General George S. Patton, and the Eighth British Army under General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. The Canadians were to be part of the British Army.

The 1^st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1^st Canadian Army Tank Brigade, under the command of Major-General G.G. Simonds, sailed from Great Britain in late June 1943. En route, 58 Canadians were drowned when enemy submarines sank three ships of the assault convoy, and 500 vehicles and a number of guns were lost. Nevertheless, the Canadians arrived late in the night of July 9 to join the invasion armada of nearly 3,000 Allied ships and landing craft.

This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle of Moreuil Wood in the First World War.