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This cairn replaces the Hamilton Gault Barracks Memorial Gate that was damaged beyond repair. It was unveiled 8 May 1982, by the Colonel of the Regiment, Major-General G.G. Brown, OStJ, CD with a recruit platoon forming the Guard of Honor. The cairn was moved to the Gault Memorial Park in Garrison Edmonton, Alberta, on 18 June 2004, when Griesbach was closed as a military facility and turned over to Canada Lands.

Canada’s quick response to the First World War was partly due to the actions of Hamilton Gault, a wealthy and distinguished Montreal businessman and Captain of the Royal Highlanders of Canada. As a Veteran of the South African War, Gault remained personally involved with the Canadian political responsibility to Britain as part of the Empire. In early August 1914, Hamilton ventured by train to Ottawa with a proposal. He would personally raise and equip a mounted unit of Canadians for the Imperial service. The proposal was set in front of Colonel Sam Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence. Colonel Hughes was attracted to the offer, but thought that an Infantry unit, as opposed to cavalry, would be more useful to Britain.

Lieutenant Colonel Farquhar approached the Duke of Connaught for permission to name the Regiment after his daughter, Her Royal Highness, Princess Patricia of Connaught. Princess Patricia had already become a much-admired figure in Canada because of her appreciation of the country’s vast wilderness and people. The request was made to the Princess, who was delighted. On 6 August 1914 the Canadian Government provisionally accepted Hamilton Gault’s offer.

Authority for the Regiment was granted on 10 August 1914, through a charter embodied in a report of the Committee of the Privy Council of Canada, to raise and equip an infantry battalion. As detailed in the charter, Hamilton Gault would contribute $100,000 to finance and equip the regiment, with the remainder of expenditures being covered by the Department of Militia and Defense.

Hamilton Gault would serve in the Regiment during the First World War, first as the second in command and at wars end as the commanding officer bringing the battalion home to Ottawa. 

He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Frezenberg (1915) and lost a leg at Sanctuary Wood (1916). He was the first Canadian in the war to be awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry in the field. Lieutenant-Colonel Gault brought the regiment home as its commanding officer in March 1919. During the Second World War, he commanded a Canadian Army reinforcement holding unit, was promoted to Colonel in 1940 and to Brigadier-General in 1942. Ill health forced Hamilton to retire, and he returned to Canada in 1944. Gault founded the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Association in 1947 and served as its first national president. He served as the Regiment’s Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel from 1920 to 1948 and then as Honorary Colonel of the Regiment until his death in 1958.

All who enter Holy Trinity cannot help but be affected by the beauty of the stained glass windows. They not only provide memorials for former clergy and parishioners but also provide a visual reminder of the beauty of God and our worship of God.

This window serves as a tribute and memorial to those who gave their lives in World War II.

This monument located outside of the Alberta Aviation Museum honours the Royal Canadian Air Force’s connection to Edmonton. In 2015 at the Aviation Heritage Memorial, the 700 Wing Air Force Association honoured 12 Canadian aviators who will had their names added to the memorial at a stone-laying ceremony.

The "Sic Itur" stones are engraved with the names of people who worked in aviation or were part of one or more of the three air services at the Blatchfield Field Airport. "Sic Itur" is Latin for "thus, go," used in the phrase "sic itur ad astra," or "thus, go to the stars," which dates back to the Roman poet Virgil and his work, the Aeneid. The RCAF adopted this phrase as their motto, and translate it alternatively as "such is the pathway to the stars."

Marble column engraved on both sides - one for First World War and the other for Second World War.

The stained glass window at Highlands United Church is made of glass collected from ruined church on the European battlefields. Reverend T.R. Davies, MA, BD, DD, was minister to Highlands United Church and Chaplain to the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg during the Normandy campaign in the Second World War. As he travelled with the battalion through the battlefields of Europe, he began picking up fragments of glass from the rubble of bombed-out churches. He carefully recorded the history of each piece and they were later put together to create Highland’s Memorial Window. Rev. Davies suffered a wound in the field and was transported to hospital in England. But the truck carrying his luggage and the collection of glass was blown up and it appeared the fragments had met their fate. However, a soldier had searched the debris for his collection and, when Rev. Davies returned to the regiment at Christmas, his package of glass was waiting for him. In all, he had accumulated fragments from the ruins of 24 churches in France, Holland, and Germany and he brought them home and gave them to his congregation.

The memorial window was dedicated by Alberta Lieutenant Governor J.C. Bowlen on Sunday, November 7^th, 1948, in memory of the parishioners who served, especially those who died during military service.

This memorial is dedicated to the Canadian Merchant Navy who were "the life line of the world".

This memorial was erected by HMCS Nonsuch on 4 May 1985 to honour Albertans who have served in the Navy.

This memorial was erected by the Aboriginal Veterans Society of Alberta.

The 1 Combat Engineer Regiment Building in Edmonton is named the Patton Building to honour Captain J.M.S. Patton, RCE. Lieutenant Patton was awarded the George Cross for removing an unexploded bomb from a Hawker Hurricane plant in England in September 1940 with Captain D.W. Cunnington.

This memorial is dedicated to the men of the congregation who died in the First World War.