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A new cenotaph to honour all who served was dedicated Sunday November 3 2019 at the Libro Community Centre in Millen Park.  The organization Woodslee Millen Group formed in 2012 with intentions to build a Memorial Veterans Cenotaph. The dedication ceremony was led by Padre Stan Fraser and aided by the Colour Guard RCNA, the Windsor Sea Cadets and the Belle River Girl Guides. New Essex MP Chris Lewis, Essex County Warden Gary McNamara and Lakeshore Mayor Tom Bain each spoke during the memorial ceremony, with Bain encouraging everyone to stop and talk with their local veterans when they see them. Wreaths were laid at the cenotaph by representatives from veterans groups, the town, county and province. Windsor’s Silver Cross Mother Theresa Charbonneau raised the Canadian flag. Donna Roubos, president of the Woodslee Millen Group thanked all of those involved in getting the cenotaph to Woodslee and said the opportunity to get the monument to Woodslee came along with the new community centre. The Libro Community Centre and Library is a 7,200 square foot community centre and library located in the community of Woodslee. It features a large community room, meeting room, large kitchen facilities and Library branch along with a large outdoor pavilion. Millen Centre Park is 9.1 acres with a 500m walking path, ball diamonds, play equipment, pavilion, spectator seating, and a library.

The sculpture, of four different coloured hands coming together together to hold a globe, was donated by Ahmadiyya Jana'at. The sculpture, which represents peace, unity and inclusion of all people celebrates 50 years of Ahmadiyya Jana'at in Canada in 2016. The sculpture was unveiled October 20, 2017.

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.

Major FA Tilston VC Armoury is named in honour of Major Frederick Albert Tilston, VC. Completed in 1902 as the new home for the 21st Essex Fusiliers, it replaced the old wooden barracks that were in place at what is now City Hall Square. An impressive building with its Romanesque design, the armoury is the only of its kind in Essex County.

It later became the home of the Essex Scottish, and later still, the Essex-Kent Scottish Regiment. It was also the home of the Windsor Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, and army cadet groups. The armoury was officially named after Major Tilston, after his passing in 1994, and used until 2004, when a new armoury was completed in the city's west end. Ownership was passed to the city administration, and later to the University of Windsor, who are currently renovating the armoury for future academic use.

Frederick Albert Tilston was born in Toronto, Ontario on 11 June 1906. He served with The Essex Scottish Regiment in the Second World War. Before he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Tilston had been wounded twice: the first time while in training, and the second time by a land mine during the fighting around Falaise in France in the summer of 1944.

This memorial garden was dedicated Sunday, June 21, 2009 in honour of troops who have served in war and peacekeeping missions.

This memorial red bud tree including plaque (slab) is dedicated, June 21, 2009) to Corporal Andrew Grenon, a Windsor soldier, who was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan September 3, 2008.

The Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial was designed and created by local sculptors Laura and Mark Williams in 2002, commissioned by the City of Windsor and was unveiled before a crowd of 200 on July 11, 2006. This memorial replaced the deteriorating Lancaster bomber memorial which was located in Jackson Park. The bronze Lancaster memorial plaque honouring Veterans of the Second World War that was displayed in Jackson Park for 40 years was moved to Dieppe Gardens in 2005. It lists the names of 399 members of the Windsor area who died during the Second World War while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Major aircrafts from the Second World War - Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane were all hand sculpted, then molded and poured in bronze. The planes were mounted onto stainless steel poles installed by the City. They extend outward over the top of the concrete walls, offering the illusion of planes in flight.

Behind the planes mounted into the cove and set within the gardens are the ghosted images representing the spirit of past pilots, two male and a female. The female is from the air transport auxiliary that transported newly constructed planes to Britain from Canada, one male is a Hurricane pilot and the other is a Spitfire pilot. Laura and Mark created a reverse relief to capture the essence of the past. They hand sculpted the pilots, then created the molds to be poured in cement.

The Eternal flame was officially lit during the Essex Scottish Regiment reunion on June 17, 2000. The flame burns as a symbolic remembrance of those who died during their service.

This memorial to the local war dead was built and donated to the city of Windsor by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 255 and was dedicated on 2 November 1958.

A cenotaph dedication was held Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at the new Farrow Riverside Miracle Park. The Riverside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 255 hosted the dedication  bringing the cenotaph back to its original home. With the help of a $25,000 grant from the commemorative division of Veterans Affairs, the memorial was improved and relocated to the front of the park on Wyandotte Street East. The cenotaph was moved from its location in front of the Riverside Arena in 2011 when it was torn down. With the makeover of the former site, the opportunity arose for the cenotaph to move back to its original prominent spot. The cenotaph now sits on a platform at the entrance of the park with a black wall and the words “Lest We Forget” inscribed behind the memorial.

Local veterans, supporters and community members attended the dedication and remembrance ceremony which featured a reading of In Flanders Field, representatives from several local organizations, and music. Wreaths were laid by local officials and dignitaries from the navy, firefighters and youth representing the Cubs and Brownies, along with veterans from World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and currently serving military. This cenotaph did not have dates on its plaque, because the plaque is in honour of all who served.

The Shaar Hashomayim Monument was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 352 and dedicated on 4 October 4, 1970, to the local Jewish war dead of the First and Second World Wars.