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Veterans Memorial Manor was officially opened on August 27, 1986, with the Honorable George Hees Minister of Veterans Affairs, Honorable Stewart McInnes Minister of C.M.H.C., Mayor Michael Harcourt, and approximately 200 invited guests. Platform guests included Albert Bianchini – Dominion President Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans; Anthony Stacey – Dominion President Royal Canadian Legion; Fred Winn – Provincial President of the Legion; Warren Matheson – B.Bc. President of Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans and Legion Padre Harry Lennox. The Master of Ceremony was Stewart Kelly – President of the Veterans’ Memorial Housing Society.

The memorial gymnasium was officially dedicated on October 26, 1951. This building was a result of a student alumni campaign to honour men and women of British Colombia who served in the First World War and Second World War. Accommodates about 2,222 people in permanent seating, additional 600 seats in bleachers and another 40 in floor seats.

The Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station 1920-1947.Four separate veterans' organizations, 801 (Vancouver) Wing, Air Force Association of Canada; Air Crew Association (Vancouver Branch); Air Force Officers Association and the British Columbia Veterans Commemorative Association, have a formed an informal to erect an educational monument to record the little known story of the Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station, constructed in 1920 through the auspices of the Federal Air Board of the day. Jericho Beach was the first Canadian Air Force and, in 1924, the first Royal Canadian Air Force station in British Columbia, marking an important milestone in Air Force history. The station also has a rich history in pioneering aviation and in the development of British Columbia's remote coastal communities via the civil flight services provided to various Federal and Provincial government ministries. These services include patrolling, mapping, inspection and transportation, encompassing all areas of British Columbia's rugged coastal waterways during the 1920's and early 1930's. In the years leading up to the Second World War the station played a vital role in expanding British Columbia's coastal air defences and, with the establishment of Western Air Command, was responsible for all Royal Canadian Air Force activities in Western Canada. With the replacement of flying boats by long-range land-based aircraft at the end of the war and Jericho Beach Air Station closed in March 1947, the base was taken over by the Army as a military centre. In 1969 the military vacated the former Jericho Air base property when it was transferred to the City of Vancouver. In the ensuing years the property was developed as a park under the jurisdiction of the Vancouver Parks Board and the hangars, personnel quarters and most of the other facilities were removed and the station's role in history disappeared along with its structures. Another interesting element of the Jericho Beach story involves third-generation major British Columbia ship-builder, Clarence Wallace, builder of the Second World War "Victory" ships, who later became Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1950 - 1955), had four sons in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1944 he presented the station with a sports field in the name of his four sons, all serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. His oldest son was a Hurricane pilot in the Battle of Britain and was lost in action over Europe a year later. Two sons were Spitfire pilots and both were shot down in 1944, one over Albania, the other over France just after D-Day, surviving the war as Prisoners of War. The presentation was marked by the dedication of a cairn and plaque, the event widely reported by the media. In the years following the transfer of the property the Wallace Field was incorporated into the extended sports field area and, sometime around 1980, the cairn was demolished and the plaque disappeared, another piece of history was erased. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, interest in the missing plaque was revived and through efforts of 801 Wing the plaque was unexpectedly discovered (2000), after narrowly escaping disposal as unwanted metal trash. It was turned over to 801 Wing after consultation with David Wallace, the last surviving son, subsequently leading to the current effort in conjunction with Second World War veterans to restore the Wallace Monument and plaque, also include plaques recognizing the historical importance of the Jericho Beach Seaplane station and the contribution of all military personnel who served there. This has now been achieved. This memorial was dedicated on Sunday, 19 October 2008.

General Wolfe Elementary School is named in honour of Major-General James Peter Wolfe. The school was built in 1910 on the corner of Ontario Street and West 26^th Avenue, and is maintained by the Vancouver School Board.

Major General James Peter Wolfe (January 1727 – September 1759) is known chiefly for his victory at the Battle of Quebec in 1759. The son of a distinguished general, Wolfe was destined for a military career, entering his father’s 1st Marine Regiment at the age of thirteen. He served during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740 – 1748) as well as in Flanders and in Scotland in 1746. The advancement of his career was halted by the Peace Treaty of 1748 and he spent much of the next eight years in garrison duty in the Scottish Highlands. Already a major at the age of eighteen, he was a lieutenant-colonel by the age of twenty-three.

The outbreak of the Seven Years’ War in 1756 offered Wolfe fresh opportunities for advancement. His part in the raid on Rochefort in 1757 led to his appointment as second-in-command of an expedition to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg. Following the success of the Siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a force which sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to capture Quebec City. After a lengthy siege, Wolfe captured the city. Wolfe was killed at the height of the battle due to injuries from three musket balls.

The parishioners erected this memorial. This light stained glass memorial window is dedicated to Canadian Navy personnel and featuring the crest and the motto of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the crests of HMCS PROTECTEUR, HMCS VANCOUVER, and HMCS DISCOVERY.

This window is dedicated in memory of Lieutenant Harold Herber Owen, son of Cecil Owen, third rector of Christ Church, (1904-1919). Lieutenant Owen was killed in battle in 1916. It depicts a soldier in the First World War battle dress. Christ has come to take him across the River of Life to his eternal home, signified by three angels and the distant radiant Latin Cross. The Reverend Cecil Owen was one of the most loved of Vancouver's citizens; for the rest of his career (1921-1947, he retired at age 81) he was a hospital chaplain and was the primary force behind the founding of the World Wide Help Organization, Save the Children. At his funeral in 1954 the crowds flowed out of Christ Church Cathedral onto the streets as thousands came to pay their respects.

This window is a memorial dedicated to a young soldier, Private Norman Vincent Hughes, of the 196th Battalion, who lost his life in the First World War. Jesus is shown with hands outstretched, calling his first disciples, Andrew and Simon Peter. They are emerging from the waters of the Sea of Galilee with a catch of fish, reminding us that disciples were called to be 'fishers of men'. Saint Peter is robed in blue and brown, signs of truth and renunciation of the world. Saint Andrew is robed in violet; love and truth.

This window is a regimental tribute from the 102nd North British Columbians to one of their fallen comrades, Colonel John W. Warden, erected in 1947. The banner across the top of the window lists battles in which the regiment fought. Christ extends His hand in blessing over war graves, shown as crosses at his feet. The tree in the background has been cut down before its time. The poppies refer to Colonel John McCrae's famous First World War poem, "In Flanders Fields," which made the poppy an enduring symbol of wartime and self-sacrifice. Above Christ's head are five peace doves.

This memorial is dedicated to the members of the Royal Canadian Navy who gave their lives in the Second World War. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, was a bishop of Myra during the fourth century. The extended hand is a symbol of father and creator; the ship is a symbol of the word of God; the anchor represents hope. Traditionally the three figures in the Biblical dress at the bottom would be looking out over Jerusalem. Here they are seated on the Stanley Park Seawall watching a destroyer steaming under the Lions Gate Bridge. This is how West Vancouver looked in 1955. There was one row of lights along Marine Drive.

This memorial window is dedicated in memory of Air Force Pilot Robert Alfred Wilson who was 23 when he died somewhere over the Bay of Biscay, off the north coast of Spain and the west coast of France. His memory is expressed here in the image of a soldier in the service of Christ, fighting powers of evil, and clothed in God's armour: the helmet of salvation, the mail coat of integrity, the leather buckler of truth and the sword of the spirit. On the banner is the Royal Canadian Air Force motto: PER ARDUA AS ASTRA, "Through hardships to the stars."