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This bronze plaque is dedicated to the memory of Corporal James Albert Henderson. James Henderson was born in October 1874 and resided in the village of Billings Bridge where he was employed as a carpenter. He was a member of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards for numerous years before he enlisted in the 8th Battalion. He was killed in September 1916 and is buried in Courcelette British Cemetery.

This plaque was originally located at the Loyal Orange #222 Billings Bridge; at the time, the village of Billings Bridge was a small community near the present day Billings Bridge in Ottawa. With the closure of the Lodge, the plaque eventually came into the hands of Gloucester Township Historical Society.

This bronze plaque was erected by the Loyal Orange Lodge #222, and is dedicated to the memory of Private Cecil Samuel Evans.

Cecil Samuel Evans was born in June 1894 in Ottawa. He eventually moved to Alberta where he was a homesteader/farmer in the Grande Prairie area before enrolling in July 1915 at Edmonton. He was killed in September 1916 in the advance from Pozières to Courcelette during the Somme offensive. Having no know grave, Cecil Samuel Evans is one of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers memorialized on the Vimy Memorial.

This plaque was originally located at the Loyal Orange Lodge #222 Billings Bridge; at the time, the village of Billings Bridge was a small community near present-day Billings Bridge in Ottawa. With the closure of the Lodge, the plaque eventually came into the hands of the Gloucester Township Historical Society.

The Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, commemorated the Royal 22^nd Regiment centennial by renaming Cumberland Seniors Park to Royal 22nd Regiment Park on October 24, 2013. The park has a granite stela with the 1914 and 2014 regimental badges which features a Canadian beaver and the Regimental motto “Je me souviens.”

The park was renamed to recognize the contribution of the largest military unit in Quebec and the largest French speaking unit in America. Also, in honour of its past and future achievements and to celebrate its 100 years of glorious history.

Situated on the former site of the Rideau Veterans Home, this memorial is dedicated to all Canadian Veterans. It consists of two stone pillars joined by a bilingual plaque explaining the history of the site. The pillars are made from quarried stone from the fireplaces of the Rideau Veterans Home. There are two more pillars to the sides with benches between them for quiet contemplation.

In the centre of the park stands a 300 year old burr oak tree with several more benches surrounding the pillars and oak tree. The benches were donated by seven local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion, Army, Navy, Air Force Veterans of Canada, Korea Veterans of Canada, Canada Lands Company, War Amputations of Canada, and the Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Care Centre and Foundation. This memorial was unveiled circa 2003.

This memorial is dedicated to the Army, Navy, and Air Force Veterans of the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War and all Canadian Forces Veterans. Erected by Veterans, Veterans Residents Council and branches of the Royal Canadian Legion on November 1, 2006. The flags are lowered in respect for each Veteran who passes away in the home.

This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the fifteen victims of the Orleans Aviation Disaster which occurred on May 15, 1956. A 20-foot cross adorned with a fighter aircraft, surrounded by 15 stones taken from the rubbles of Villa St-Louis is a reminder of this tragedy. This crash is depicted as one of the worst in Canadian military aviation history. The cross is located behind the contemporary Residence Saint-Louis, built in 1965, and one of the larger long-term care homes in the Ottawa area.

May 13, 2009 - Villa St-Louis - Ceremony commemorates Orléans disaster:

Fifty-three years after a CF-100 interceptor crashed into Villa St-Louis, in Hiawatha Park, killing 15 people, a group of Orleans veterans got together with members of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa to commemorate the tragic event that occurred May 15, 1956. Shortly after 9 p.m. on that day a pair of CF-100s were launched from RCAF Station Uplands to identify an unknown aircraft flying from the North towards Montreal. After identifying the aircraft as an RCAF North Star flying from Resolute Bay to Dorval at an altitude of 7,000 feet, the two fighters climbed to an altitude of 33,000 feet to practice interception tactics and burn excess fuel before returning to their base.

One aircraft landed at Uplands but the other which remained airborne to burn more fuel never did; instead it crashed into Villa St-Louis, a rest and retirement home for the Sisters of Charity located in the outskirts of the - then - small village of Orleans. The cause of the accident was never definitely established although a malfunction of the aircraft's oxygen system is believed to have caused the loss of consciousness of the two crew members which ultimately led to the crash and the loss of 15 lives, probably the worst disaster in Canada's military aviation history.

Aside from the two aviators, 11 nuns, a civilian servant at the Villa and the chaplain, himself a retired naval padre, perished in the crash. This year's commemoration, the fourth organized by an informal group of some 30 mainly formerly members of the Air Force that meet regularly at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 632, was attended by about 50 people including official representation of the Legion and 410 Wing of the Air Force Association of Canada.

Post-scriptum: In his initial research while planning for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the crash, in 2006, Ray Drouin - a retired RCAF administration officer now residing a few hundred metres from Résidence St-Louis -discovered that the names of two deceased crew members did not appear in the Seventh Book of Remembrance, on Parliament Hill; through his valiant efforts this situation has since been remedied and the names of Flying Officer William J. Schmidt, 26, of Creston, B. C. (pilot) and Flying Officer Kenneth D. Thomas, 20, of Niagara Falls, Ont., now appear in the Seventh Book.

The Victims: Sister André-Bernard, age 22 (nee Lise St-Louis) from Hull, Quebec. Sr Claire-de-la-Charité, 21 (Jacqueline Dubé), Lorrainville, Quebec. Sr Claire-du-Crucifix, 30 (Aurore Buissière), Clarence Creek, Ont. Sr Jeanne-de-Lorraine, 58 (Maria Bérubé), Ville-Marie, Quebec. Miss Aline Lapointe, 40, Masson, Quebec. (Servant at Villa St-Louis) Sr Marthe-de I'Immaculée, 31 (Marie-Berthe Lajeunesse), Thurso, Quebec. Sr Mathias-de-la-Croix, 27 (Éliane Simard), Alfred, Ont. Flying Officer William J. Schmidt, 26, Creston, B. C. (Pilot) Sr St-Férréol, 67 (Valéda Lefebvre), Clarence Creek, Ont. Sr St-Justin, 77 (Émilie Hurtubise), Pointe-Gatineau, Quebec. Sr St-Laurent-Justinien, 71 (Lumena Genest), Saint-Isidore-de-Dorchester, Quebec. (Superior of Villa St-Louis) Sr Ste-Solange, 71 (Marguerite Guénette), L'Orignal, Ont. Sr Pierre-Aimée, 25 (Huguette Blais), Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec Flying Officer Kenneth D. Thomas, 20, Niagara Falls, Ont. (Navigator) Father Richard Ward, 43, Toronto, Ont. (Chaplain at Villa St-Louis and Assistant to the Chaplain General of the Royal Canadian Navy)

Due to highly restricted accessibility, people wishing to visit the K. J. Rodgers Building are encouraged to contact the RCMP Property Security Office in Ottawa at 613-843-5555.

This building is dedicated to Corporal Kevin John Rodgers. It was originally dedicated by National Defence on March 11, 1987.

Corporal Kevin Rodgers joined the Cameron Highlanders Cadet Corps of Ottawa in November 1967. He continued with the Reserve Unit 28th Service Battalion from May 1972 to July 1976, when he enlisted in the Regular Forces as an MSE OP Corporal and was posted to the Land Engineering Test Establishment (LETE) in Orleans, Ontario. He had been working at LETE for two years as a Civilian Test Driver when he was killed in an accident.

In March 1987 a new facility was completed at LETE and was dedicated the Cpl. Kevin John Rodgers Building. After the LETE facility was closed in 1994, the building was left in the hands of the Armed Forces and since then was sold to the RCMP.

In May 2004, the Rodgers family made contact with the RCMP who were, at that time, looking for names for their facilities. They were unaware the building had previously been named for someone that was killed there. They searched around and with the help of a Commissionaire who still worked there and located the original plaque from the building. It was decided that the right thing to do was to restore Kevin's name to the building. The name was officially put back on the facility May 11, 2004, the K. J. Rodgers Building.

Inside the main lobby is a photograph of Cpl. Rodgers, an aerial photograph of the building and a plaque detailing his military service and death.  At the location of his death a post and plaque in his memory were installed by the RCMP.

This memorial was created by Mr. Bruce Garner and was erected in Memorial Park near the Legion building. It was dedicated to those who have served in wars gone by, to those who are serving as Peace Keepers and as Keepers of the Peace and to future generations. The dream of the members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 632 became a reality through donations from businesses, service clubs, members and other individuals. It was erected on August 13, 2000.

This memorial is dedicated to the Ortona Veterans. It was erected by the Gloucester City Council.

The Lancaster LAV lll Monument recognizes the sacrifices of military members who served in Afghanistan. On 9 July 2018 it was installed on an engineered concrete slab, supported on four steel columns and accessed via a paving stone walkway. The monument is lighted from dusk to dawn with a LED lighting system. 

Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) lll were originally manufactured by Canadians at General Dynamics Land Systems Canada in London, Ontario and were instrumental to troops in carrying out their missions while in Afghanistan. The monuments were created from decommissioned LAV lll hulls, donated by the Government of Canada and built by Militex Coating Inc. and Fanshawe College students in London, Ontario.

On November 5, 2014, the Canada Company Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) lll Monument Program was launched to recognize the 40,000 Canadians Armed Forces who served in Afghanistan and to commemorate the 162 Canadians who lost their lives. The program closed after awarding 33 monuments to communities across Canada.

A stone pillar near the monument bears a plaque in remembrance of Sgt. Marc D. Leger, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, who was killed in Afghanistan.