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This memorial to those who served in the Canadian military during the First and Second World Wars was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 207.

On 16 December 1983, the Battle School Lecture Training Building No. 201 was renamed and dedicated Foden Building by Colonel W.B. Sutherland, CD.

Regimental Sergeant Major William John Foden was born into a military family on 21 November 1876 at the garrison town of Carrickfergus, Ireland. His family emigrated to Kingston, Ontario in 1878. William enrolled in the militia with the 47th Frontenac Battalion and served in the South African War with the First Canadian Contingent, D Coy, 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment. He fought at Paardeburg, Bloemfontein, Cape Colony and Transvaal and was selected for Canada’s Honour Guard to London, England, for King Edward VII's Coronation on 26 June 1902.

Through the settling of ex-soldiers, he moved with his wife and family to the Hardisty, Alberta area in 1906. He enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) in August 1914 as an Original with the Regimental Number of 500 — he was 36 years old. Initially the Company Quarter Master-Sergeant of No 2 Company, he later became the Company Sergeant Major. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in October 1916 and was seriously wounded on 10 April 1917 during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. 

After the war, through the 1919 a Soldier Settlement Act, he acquired land on the north edge of Hardisty, Alberta. Sergeant Major Foden called his property Vimy Ridge Farm. In 1983, the PPCLI Battle School presented him with a Vimy Ridge wooden sign that hung over the farm's main entrance. He died there on 11 May 1951 and is buried in the Hardisty Cemetery.

Erected by the village of Consort and the Royal Canadian Legion, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead of the Second World War.

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 232, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars.

The original Strome Memorial Hall was built in 1920 to serve as a memorial to the village's war dead and as a community gathering place. Fifteen men from the Strome district lost their lives in the First World War, a devastating loss to a community of less than 300 people. The hall was destroyed by fire on September 28, 1935.

Construction of the current hall began less than three weeks later. A brick chimney on the north elevation and a gable-roofed shed slightly to the south of the hall are the sole remaining elements of the original 1920 building. Two bronze plaques, bearing the names of the district's fallen soldiers from the First and Second World Wars are affixed to the Hall on either side of the front vestibule.

The Strome Memorial Hall is now the home of Sodbusters Archives Museum.

Source: Alberta Culture and Status of Women, Historic Resources Management Branch.

The parishioners of Castor erected this memorial unveiled in 1943. The stained glass window is dedicated to the parishioners who served during the Great War and World War II. It is made of three light windows and called “War Memorial window of Christ teaching” by Robert McCausland Limited.

This memorial, the Last Post Memorial Board, was donated by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the local Royal Canadian Legion branch in memory of deceased members of the branch.

Erected by the Harry Connor Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of the First World War.

The Stirling cenotaph design was a combined effort between Mayor Trevor Lewington and Mr. Jim Mulock from Lethbridge Monumental Ltd. The cenotaph commemorates those who fell in both World Wars as well as recognizes those who served from our community and returned. It is the first cenotaph in the community and was dedicated and officially unveiled to the community on November 11, 2021.

The stone is a black granite sourced from India. The engraving was completed in Quebec with the final finishing and installation completed by Lethbridge Monumental Ltd.

The memorials held inside Grace United Church can be divided into four separate items: 1) a white marble tablet sculpted by Reverend Norman Priestly in honour of the local war dead of the First World War; 2) a wooden plaque erected by the Sunday School also naming the local war dead of the First World War; 3) another First World War memorial; and 4) a written memorial to the Second World War.