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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.

This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle in Liri Valley in the Second World War.

In the spring of 1944, the Germans still held the line of defence north of Ortona, as well as the mighty bastion of Monte Cassino which blocked the Liri corridor to the Italian capital. Determined to maintain their hold on Rome, the Germans constructed two formidable lines of fortifications, the Gustav Line, and 14.5 kilometres behind it, the Adolf Hitler Line.

During April and May of 1944, the Eighth British Army, including the 1^st Canadian Corps, was secretly moved across Italy to join the Fifth U.S. Army in the struggle for Rome. Here under the dominating peak of Cassino, the Allied armies hurled themselves against the enemy position. Tanks of the 1^st Canadian Armoured Brigade (formerly 1^st Canadian Army Tank Brigade) supported the Allied attack. After four days of hard fighting, the German defences were broken from Cassino to the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Germans moved back their second line of defence. On May 18, Polish troops took the Cassino position and the battered monastery at the summit.

Coriano Street honours the Perth Regiment and commemorates the battle of Coriano Ridge, Italy.

To prevent the capture of Rimini, the Germans reinforced the surrounding region, particularly at Coriano Ridge, a feature that dominated the coastline and the approaches by land. The entire Canadian Corps had set out against the Adriatic sector with the ultimate aim of liberating Rimini in late August 1944. On the 25th, they crossed the Metauro River, one of half-a-dozen rivers in the path of the advance. On September 3rd, the Canadians set their sights on the ridge. The Royal Canadian Dragoons cleared Riccione using their armoured cars. At the same time, the 5th Division headed inland and took the village of Misano. The latter group was now to take Coriano Ridge, but the rains began and, combined with German resistance, held them up.

On September 12 the 1st British and 5th Canadian Armoured Divisions of the Eighth Army resumed the advance on the ridge. The entire corps artillery pounded the enemy front. The next day, after heavy fighting - including house-to-house battles - the Canadians possessed the ridge. The Perth Regiment penetrated by 2 a.m., and the engineers and tanks soon followed. 

This street commemorates those who fought in the Italian Campaign during the Second World War.