Alberta

Province Code
AB
City/Municipality
Hanna
Memorial Number
48009-035
Type
Address
2nd Avenue and Centre street
Location
Hanna Memorial Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
51.6435236, -111.9254905
Inscription

[front/devant]

1914 1918

1939 1945

LEST WE FORGET

Image
Photo Credit
Bob Bellis
Caption
stele (front)
Province
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Body Content

This stele was constructed in memory of the people killed in the First and Second World Wars, who were from Hanna and District. It was moved to its present location in 1965. It is now located in Hanna Memorial Park. The park is maintained by the town.

City
Hanna
Country
Type Description
red granite stele
Memorial CF Legacy ID
2943
City/Municipality
Bashaw
Memorial Number
48009-034
Type
Address
5115 50 St, Bashaw, AB
Location
Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 38
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.584474503041, -112.96960710198
Inscription

[front/devant]

LEST WE FORGET

VALOUR

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR YESTERDAY FOR OUR TOMORROW

Image
Caption
stele (front)
Province
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Body Content

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 38, this memorial is dedicated to all deceased Canadian military veterans.

City
Bashaw
Country
Type Description
Granite stele
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3037
City/Municipality
Hughenden
Memorial Number
48009-033
Type
Address
3 McTavish St #21, Hughenden, AB
Location
Devonian Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.510243263976, -110.96870206647
Inscription

[plaque/plaque]

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

Image
Caption
stele (front)
Province
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Body Content

This memorial to those who served in the Canadian military during the First and Second World Wars was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 207.

City
Hughenden
Country
Type Description
Fieldstone stele
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3055
City/Municipality
Denwood
Memorial Number
48009-032
Type
Location
Canadian Forces Base Wainwright
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.8325268, -110.8785677
Inscription

Foden Building

[plaque]
FODEN
WILLIAM JOHN
SGT MAJOR
500 PPCLI
1877-1950
A LIFE OF DEEDS

Image
Photo Credit
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
Caption
Foden Building plaque
War or Conflict Term
Province
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Body Content

On 16 December 1983, the Battle School Lecture Training Building No. 201 was renamed and dedicated Foden Building by Colonel W.B. Sutherland, CD.

Regimental Sergeant Major William John Foden was born into a military family on 21 November 1876 at the garrison town of Carrickfergus, Ireland. His family emigrated to Kingston, Ontario in 1878. William enrolled in the militia with the 47th Frontenac Battalion and served in the South African War with the First Canadian Contingent, D Coy, 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment. He fought at Paardeburg, Bloemfontein, Cape Colony and Transvaal and was selected for Canada’s Honour Guard to London, England, for King Edward VII's Coronation on 26 June 1902.

Through the settling of ex-soldiers, he moved with his wife and family to the Hardisty, Alberta area in 1906. He enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) in August 1914 as an Original with the Regimental Number of 500 — he was 36 years old. Initially the Company Quarter Master-Sergeant of No 2 Company, he later became the Company Sergeant Major. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in October 1916 and was seriously wounded on 10 April 1917 during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. 

After the war, through the 1919 a Soldier Settlement Act, he acquired land on the north edge of Hardisty, Alberta. Sergeant Major Foden called his property Vimy Ridge Farm. In 1983, the PPCLI Battle School presented him with a Vimy Ridge wooden sign that hung over the farm's main entrance. He died there on 11 May 1951 and is buried in the Hardisty Cemetery.

City
Denwood
Country
Type Description
Building
Memorial CF Legacy ID
11497
City/Municipality
Consort
Memorial Number
48009-031
Type
Address
5231 50 St, Consort, AB
Location
Community Centre property
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.0132, -110.77509
Inscription

[front/devant]

1939 - 1945
THEIR NAMES LIVETH

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Image
Photo Credit
Deirdre Kraft
Caption
cross (front)
1 of 2 images
Image
Caption
cross (surroundings)
1 of 2 images
Province
Body Content

Erected by the village of Consort and the Royal Canadian Legion, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead of the Second World War.

City
Consort
Country
Type Description
Granite cross
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3048
City/Municipality
Bawlf
Memorial Number
48009-030
Type
Address
203 Hanson St
Location
Beside Village of Bawlf
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.91947, -112.46591
Inscription

[front/devant]

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945

Image
Caption
front view
Province
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Body Content

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 232, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars.

City
Bawlf
Country
Type Description
Fieldstone cairn and cement cross
Memorial CF Legacy ID
3038
City/Municipality
Strome
Memorial Number
48009-029
Type
Address
5027 50 Street
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.8118993, -112.0660474
Inscription

MEMORIAL
HALL

Image
Caption
Strome Memorial Hall
1 of 2 images
Image
Caption
Strome Memorial Hall
1 of 2 images
War or Conflict Term
Province
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Body Content

The original Strome Memorial Hall was built in 1920 to serve as a memorial to the village's war dead and as a community gathering place. Fifteen men from the Strome district lost their lives in the First World War, a devastating loss to a community of less than 300 people. The hall was destroyed by fire on September 28, 1935.

Construction of the current hall began less than three weeks later. A brick chimney on the north elevation and a gable-roofed shed slightly to the south of the hall are the sole remaining elements of the original 1920 building. Two bronze plaques, bearing the names of the district's fallen soldiers from the First and Second World Wars are affixed to the Hall on either side of the front vestibule.

The Strome Memorial Hall is now the home of Sodbusters Archives Museum.

Source: Alberta Culture and Status of Women, Historic Resources Management Branch.

City
Strome
Country
Type Description
Building - hall
Photo Credit
Historic Resources Management, Government of Alberta
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10846
City/Municipality
Castor
Memorial Number
48009-028
Type
Address
5101 49 Street, T0C 0X0
Location
Knox United Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
52.220731, -111.904829
Inscription

(needs further research/recherche incomplète)

Image
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
Province
Body Content

The parishioners of Castor erected this memorial unveiled in 1943. The stained glass window is dedicated to the parishioners who served during the Great War and World War II. It is made of three light windows and called “War Memorial window of Christ teaching” by Robert McCausland Limited.

City
Castor
Country
Type Description
Stained glass window
Memorial CF Legacy ID
8296
City/Municipality
Camrose
Memorial Number
48009-027
Type
Address
5703-48 Avenue
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
0, 0
Inscription

(needs further research/recherche incomplète)

Image
Province
Body Content

This memorial, the Last Post Memorial Board, was donated by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the local Royal Canadian Legion branch in memory of deceased members of the branch.

City
Camrose
Country
Type Description
Memorial
Memorial CF Legacy ID
2893
City/Municipality
Camrose
Memorial Number
48009-026
Type
Address
5703-48 Avenue
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
0, 0
Inscription

[front/devant]

LEST WE FORGET

1914 - 1918

ERECTED BY THE HARRY CONNOR CHAPTER I.O.D.E.

Image
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
Image
1 of 4 images
War or Conflict Term
Province
Body Content

Erected by the Harry Connor Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of the First World War.

City
Camrose
Country
Type Description
Granite cenotaph
Memorial CF Legacy ID
2892