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The Town of Innisfil War Memorial was unveiled November 11, 2012. The monument is a simple stone resting on a base, which bears the badges of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Merchant Navy. The memorial was initiated by a Town Citizens Committee and is the first memorial that represents the municipality as a whole.

Veterans, Canadian Forces members, police and firefighters marched behind the pipes to the front of town hall, where the engraved stone stood, draped in a white sheet. After the stone was unveiled, wreaths were laid by representatives of civic, community and Veterans groups. The Innisfil Pipe and Drums and the band of Barrie’s Sea Cadet Corps provided music. 

Parishioners of Trinity Anglican erected a stained glass dove of Peace window in honour of members such as Lt Milton Cameron Vipond who served and died in military service. 

The Canadian Victoria Cross Recipients Monument is a four sided obelisk that stands 72 inches high and is about 20 inches wide. The four sides alphabetically list the Victoria Cross Recipients from the Crimean War, India’s First War of Independence, Bravery at Sea, Boer War, Second Boer War, First World War and Second World War.

The monument was designed by Tompkins and Heels Monuments Inc. and was built in 2013. It was dedicated by Princess Anne on 22 October 2013. The monument sits in a prominent location next to the flags of Canada, Ontario and Barrie on the south shore of Kempenfelt Bay.

The Cookstown Veterans Memorial Park is a tribute to the 65 men from the village of Cookstown and vicinity who enlisted in the First World War. The cenotaph located at this park was officially dedicated by the community in August 1935. 

In 2019, a consulting arborist inspected the Maple trees planted in memory of the 65 men. The town has now taken down trees but, sensitive to the memorial function of each maple, plans to replace these memorial trees either with native sugar maples, or locally grown red maples.

This cenotaph was built in 1921, a tall white marble shaft, dedicated to those you gave their lives in the First World War. A brass symbol of a Canadian maple leaf adorns the top.

In 1947, the names of those who perished in the Second World War were engraved on the back of the cenotaph. 

This plaque honours the sacrifices and contributions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Veterans. Placing this plaque in the cenotaph area at Georgian College was a cooperative effort between the College, Indigenous community and the Veterans in the area. It was unveiled on November 11, 2011, as part of the first Remembrance day gathering at the new College cenotaph. 

The following was written by Bill Jamieson a Korean War Veteran from Beausoleil First Nation who was instrumental in the design and wording of the plaque. 

The suggestion of crossed Eagle Feathers came from the military where a crossed rifles badge was used to indicate proficiency in marksmanship for the wearer. 

Since the Eagle in our culture symbolizes many different meanings including loyalty, balance, bravery, courage, spirit and a direct connection to the Creator, why not have crossed Eagle Feathers? The wings of the eagle represent balance needed between male and female, each one dependent on the strength of the other. 

Native American wisdom often relates to the feather as an embodiment of the spirit of the eagle. When a person is honored with the feather of an Eagle, that person is being acknowledged for his bravery, courage and leadership with gratitude and respect. 

As with the crossed rifle badge, we too are recognizing the leadership and skills of Aboriginal Veterans who played a critical role in Canada’s wartime/peacetime history.

Unveiled on 6 October 2011, this memorial honours all Canadians who gave their lives in the cause of peace.

Camp Borden was founded in 1916, training nearly fifty thousand soldiers for service in The Canadian Expeditionary Force. For many of those soldiers, their first action was during the Battle of Arras, and specifically the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

In 2016, Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden celebrated its centennial year, and through the enduring partnership of the Base, the City of Barrie and the surrounding communities, the Borden Legacy Park was erected to mark the occasion. The monument was unveiled on June 9 by Prime Minister Trudeau, with Mayor Leturque, Mayor of Arras, contributing to the ceremony. It was designed by Canadian artist and sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore.

The Borden Legacy Project began in 2014, and in June 2015, sacred soil was removed from the Battlefield at Vimy Ridge and patriated to Canada. This soil symbolically holds the DNA of all those fallen and wounded in the 1917 Battle.

The Borden Legacy Park has three distinct pieces that serve to commemorate CFB Borden's past and inspire the future. First, a forty-foot long and seven-foot high white and black granite wall, is a tribute and inspiration to each and every member of the Canadian Armed Forces that passes through the CFB Borden gates. A six-foot wide path separates the two sections of the wall to allow passage between. A berm directly behind the granite walls is meant to represent Vimy Ridge itself. The wall also encases an urn, in which the sacred soil is held. The promise of General Sir Arthur Currie to his troops is etched into the wall that holds the soil.

The second piece of the park is the restored First World War trenches that were used to train infantry soldiers before their departure to the Western Front. Connected to the Legacy Wall via a short wooded trail, these trenches are a reminder of the importance of training, and the conditions of the First World War.

The third piece is a Bronze Bugler stands in the park, calling to his companions, calling visitors to the monument, and calling to the now-empty trenches that once trained soldiers before they left for battle overseas.

To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a second bugler was created and donated to the Vimy Foundation, to stand in the shadow of Walter Allward’s magnificent monument in France.

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.

This memorial plaque is dedicated to Sapper Brian Collier who was killed on July 20, 2010 while serving in Afghanistan. The Town of Bradford dedicated the black granite plaque on July 1, 2012.