This park was dedicated to all Canadian Veterans in 1966.
Veterans' Memorial Park
VETERANS
MEMORIAL PARK
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MEMORIAL PARK
This park was dedicated to all Canadian Veterans in 1966.
1914 1918
IN MEMORY OF
MEMBERS OF ONTARIO LODGE
NO. 521 A.F. AND A.M.
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR.
BRO. WILLIAM EARL TURNER
BRO. THOMAS MARSHALL BROCKLEBANK
THEY DIED
THAT HONOUR AND JUSTICE MIGHT LIVE
This plaque honours two members of Ontario Masonic Lodge No. 521 A.F. and A.M. who gave their lives in the Great War.
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IN LASTING MEMORY OF
REAR-ADMIRAL
WALTER HOSE
C.B.E., R.C.N.
1875 – 1965
RECOGNIZED AS THE FATHER OF THE
ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY, AND FOUNDER OF
THE NAVAL RESERVES OF CANADA. HE WAS
THE FIRST CHIEF OF THE NAVAL STAFF.
IN ADVERSITY, NEITHER POLITICS,
LACK OF MONEY, NOR RIDICULE
COULD BEAT THE DETERMINATION
AND COURAGE OF THIS OFFICER
THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS
AND MEN OF THE R.C.N. & R.C.N.R., AND DEDICATED THE
2ND OCTOBER, 1967, ON THE 92ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE
BIRTH OF REAR-ADMIRAL HOSE. IT IS THEIR TRIBUTE
TO A GREAT AND GALLANT SAILOR – WARRIOR
Canadian Naval badges mounted on the perimeter of the plaque:
Royal Canadian Navy (top)
HMCS Stadacona (upper left)
HMCS Naden (upper right)
HMCS Patriot (lower left)
HMCS Hunter (lower right)
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IN MEMORIAM
REAR-ADMIRAL WALTER HOSE
C.B.E., R.C.N.
PRESENTED BY
HMCS HUNTER
and
THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL ASSOCIATION
ADMIRAL HOSE BRANCH WINDSOR
DEDICATED ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY RESERVE
2023
The Rear-Admiral Walter Hose, CBE, RCN plaque was rededicated on 31 January 2023, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. Hose is recognized as the “Father of the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve”. The plaque is located on the quarterdeck of HMCS Hunter 2nd, the Naval Reserve Division in Windsor, Ontario.
Three identical bronze memorial plaques were cast in 1967 by the officers and sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve as a tribute to a great and gallant sailor – warrior. The first plaque was erected at the southernmost edge of Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia looking out to sea. The second was mounted at St. Paul’s Church in Esquimalt, British Columbia and the third was on the quarterdeck of HMCS Hunter 1st.
When HMCS Hunter 1st was paid off in 2014, the plaque was relocated to the new HMCS Hunter 2nd. However, after 55 years, the plaque needed a refit before being displayed in the new facility, a project that was taken on by the Royal Canadian Naval Association Admiral Hose Branch in collaboration with the command team in HMCS Hunter.
Rear-Admiral Hose resided in Windsor from 1950 until his passing in 1965. He was a frequent visitor and guest at HMCS Hunter during those years. Six Chief Petty Officers from HMCS Hunter were the pallbearers at his naval funeral in Windsor. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Naval Association Windsor Branch which was renamed Admiral Hose Branch following his passing. Hose was a staunch supporter of youth groups, especially the Sea Cadet Corps.
NAVY
MARINE
100 1910 - 2010
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING
OF THE CANADIAN NAVY THIS PLAQUE
COMMEMORATES
REAR-ADMIRAL WALTER HOSE O.B.E., R.C.N.
(1875-1965), RECOGNIZED AS THE FATHER OF THE
ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY AND FOUNDER OF THE
NAVAL RESERVES OF CANADA, WHO WAS BORN AT
SEA BUT CHOSE TO SPEND HIS RETIRMENT YEARS
WITH THE WINDSOR NAVAL COMMUNITY AND IS
INTERRED AT HEAVENLY REST CEMETERY.
WINDSOR NAVAL RESERVE UNIT
HMCS HUNTER
ROYAL CANADIAN SEA CADET CORPS
AGAMEMNON
NAVAL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF
CANADA - WINDSOR BRANCH
ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL ASSOCIATION
ADMIRAL HOSE BRANCH
NAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA
WINDSOR BRANCH
DEDICATED
AT THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC MEMORIAL SERVICE
MAY 2, 2010
The Rear-Admiral Walter Hose, OBE Plaque was dedicated on May 2, 2010, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy. Hose is recognized as the father of the Royal Canadian Navy and founder of the Naval Reserves of Canada.
A new cenotaph to honour all who served was dedicated Sunday November 3 2019 at the Libro Community Centre in Millen Park. The organization Woodslee Millen Group formed in 2012 with intentions to build a Memorial Veterans Cenotaph. The dedication ceremony was led by Padre Stan Fraser and aided by the Colour Guard RCNA, the Windsor Sea Cadets and the Belle River Girl Guides. New Essex MP Chris Lewis, Essex County Warden Gary McNamara and Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain each spoke during the memorial ceremony, with Bain encouraging everyone to stop and talk with their local veterans when they see them. Wreaths were laid at the cenotaph by representatives from veterans groups, the town, county and province. Windsor’s Silver Cross Mother Theresa Charbonneau raised the Canadian flag. Donna Roubos, president of the Woodslee Millen Group thanked all of those involved in getting the cenotaph to Woodslee and said the opportunity to get the monument to Woodslee came along with the new community centre. The Libro Community Centre and Library is a 7,200 square foot community centre and library located in the community of Woodslee. It features a large community room, meeting room, large kitchen facilities and Library branch along with a large outdoor pavilion. Millen Centre Park is 9.1 acres with a 500m walking path, ball diamonds, play equipment, pavilion, spectator seating, and a library.
Love for all hatred for none, (Ahmadiyya Jama'at motto)
The sculpture, of four different coloured hands coming together together to hold a globe, was donated by Ahmadiyya Jana'at. The sculpture, which represents peace, unity and inclusion of all people celebrates 50 years of Ahmadiyya Jana'at in Canada in 2016. The sculpture was unveiled October 20, 2017.
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Recalling Canada's First National Internment Operations 1914-1920
A la mémoire des premières opérations d’internement nationale du Canada 1914-1920
This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.
Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.
Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.
Major FA Tilston VC Armoury is named in honour of Major Frederick Albert Tilston, VC. Completed in 1902 as the new home for the 21st Essex Fusiliers, it replaced the old wooden barracks that were in place at what is now City Hall Square. An impressive building with its Romanesque design, the armoury is the only of its kind in Essex County.
It later became the home of the Essex Scottish, and later still, the Essex-Kent Scottish Regiment. It was also the home of the Windsor Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, and army cadet groups. The armoury was officially named after Major Tilston, after his passing in 1994, and used until 2004, when a new armoury was completed in the city's west end. Ownership was passed to the city administration, and later to the University of Windsor, who are currently renovating the armoury for future academic use.
Frederick Albert Tilston was born in Toronto, Ontario on 11 June 1906. He served with The Essex Scottish Regiment in the Second World War. Before he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Tilston had been wounded twice: the first time while in training, and the second time by a land mine during the fighting around Falaise in France in the summer of 1944.
This memorial garden was dedicated Sunday, June 21, 2009 in honour of troops who have served in war and peacekeeping missions.
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Cpl. Andrew Paul
Grenon
IIVP - PPCLI
Jan. 19, 1985 - Sept. 3, 2008
Local Son, National Hero
Proud Canadian
We Will Remember You
This memorial red bud tree including plaque (slab) is dedicated, June 21, 2009) to Corporal Andrew Grenon, a Windsor soldier, who was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan September 3, 2008.