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Although extremely valuable lessons were learned in the Raid on Dieppe, a steep price was paid. Of the 4,963 Canadians who embarked for the operation, only 2,210 returned to England, and many of these were wounded. There were 3,367 casualties, including 1,946 prisoners of war; 916 Canadians lost their lives. This street was named in their honour in September 2006.

In 1944, Lieutenant-Colonel C.N. Mitchell VC, MC, Officer Commanding of A6 Canadian Engineer Training Centre, was inspired with the idea of creating a monument to all Sappers. It would be designed and crafted by Sappers. He directed Major Williams to design the cenotaph, and Major Davies to select a site and prepare a memorial park. Major N.B. Gillies, a geologist, was to select the site from which a suitable piece of rock could be quarried in one piece. Transporting the piece was designated to Major T. A.V. Tremblay, OC of the Bridging Wing, and for setting out the quarrying camp.

Major Williams presented his first design in 1945. It was to be a twelve-sided shaft set on a square base, with a grenade at each of the four corners. Three steps would take you up to the cenotaph. The over-all height of the monument was 16 feet, 6 inches and the base, 4 feet, 10 inches square. On January 24, an expedition of Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, Major Gillies and several others, located and decided on the quarry site, the face of a cliff on Harrison Lake, approximately 22 miles from the site selected for the cenotaph.

The rock chosen was Monzonite, an aggregate of plagloclase feldspar and hornblende, resembling granite. Within a few hours of their return to camp, an order was issued for "Operation Granite" and a quarrying camp was set up the next day. Lieutenant T.H.E. Copps, an experienced miner and prospector started the quarrying. By the end of March, the most difficult task of quarrying was completed.

The 42 tons stone had to be moved to the park area for final cutting and shaping. It was decided to bring the massive block on a Bailey Pontoon raft to Cannor Bay, a point on the Fraser near Chilliwack, and then by low-loader to its destination. Under the direction of QMS Ozmun, an obsolete Valentine Tank was converted into a low-loader. The Bridging Wing constructed a five pontoon Bailey raft, while loading ramps were built at the quarry site and Cannor Bay with Lieutenant D.R. Young in charge. On the morning of 16 May 1945, with Major Tremblay in charge, the massive stone made its way down the Harrison and Fraser Rivers in the heavy rain. Normally, Engineers revel when gravel is found, not so in this case. Within just a few miles of the offloading point, the raft ran aground on a gravel bar in midstream. All efforts to free the raft failed. Mooring it for the night, Major Tremblay reported to Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell. Mitchell and Major Davies sought out a very powerful tug, and with Davies on board, the tug came to the rescue. In freeing the raft, it nearly swamped. Upon arriving at the offloading point, it was found that most pontoons were half full of water.

Once unloaded in the center of the Memorial Park on 18 May 1945, the cutting process began. Experienced stone masons, SSgt Crowe, Corporal Bloomfield, Corporal Thatcher and Sapper Forster comprised the expertise that would cut and shape the raw material into the final shape. The design was twice changed due to faults in the stone. It went from a twelve to an eight sided shaft, and finally because of further faults, to the shape you now see. The base was considerably reduced, but the height did not change.

These men worked in all weather until early the next year and were very proud of their work. By the end of February 1946, the steps were in place, the base stone and cap stone completed, and the main shaft was approaching the final phase. There still remained the fashioning of the swords and grenades, the lettering and the all important task of raising the main shaft into position. On April 13, the main shaft was ready to be raised into position. A diamond drill hole was made through the length of the stone. Through this hole, a steel rod with an eye was threaded, secured by two steel nuts at the bottom of the shaft. The stone, in a horizontal position, was then moved on rollers up a ramp to a platform built around the base stone. Over the platform were sheer-legs tackled with a fifteen ton chain block. Once on the platform, the stone was raised to a position approximately 35 degrees by jacks and from there on was brought up to perpendicular by the block and tackle. A movie camera recorded the happenings of that tense Saturday morning.

Mr. Booth, a well known landscape gardener of New Westminster and father of one of the Sappers, not only gave trees and shrubs, but devoted much time to landscaping.

By the time of unveiling, a long time dream of Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell's came to pass. Chilliwack was named the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering and he its Officer Commanding.

After the closure of Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack in 1998, the Department of National Defence retained ownership of All Sappers' Memorial Park and the cenotaph. Canada Lands Company had the responsibility of disposing of the Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack properties and wished, at the same time, to preserve the military heritage of the area. Their proposal was to not disturb the cenotaph, to increase the land area, to beautify the grounds, and to respect the soil where ashes have been spread. Canada Lands Company worked closely with Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack Historical Society and Retired Sappers to revitalize and refurbish the All Sappers Memorial Park. Mr. Greg Smallenberg was selected as the designer. Among his high-profile works, he was renowned for his work at the Vimy Monument in France.

Ground was broken in June 2009 with the intention to have the restored memorial ready for rededication for Remembrance Week 2009. The construction company GEMCO was given this trust of restoration. They stripped away the concealing hedge, elevated the center island, beautified the landscape, inserted soft lighting and signage, redirected sidewalks into the site and added numerous seats to invite visitors to sit and reflect.

Relatives of Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell participated at the rededication of All Sappers' Memorial Park and Cenotaph on 7 November 2009. Mrs. Frances Bailie (Mitchell’s daughter) and her son Philip Beck and Mitchell’s great-grandson, Liam Gleeson in his cadet uniform, did Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell proudly. Mrs. Bailie’s speech held the spectators spellbound. The silence was maintained as the family laid a wreath in memory of their renowned relative. 

A committee consisting of Branch 4, Branch 280 and Unit 305 of the Army and Navy Vets was created to look into the possibility of creating a statue of “Piper Richardson, VC.” Twenty-year-old Piper Richardson, was a Scottish immigrant who volunteered to serve during the First World War, serving with the Seaforth Highlanders. The statue was installed on the grounds of the original City Hall, now the Chilliwack Museum and Archives, in October, 2003. This was a major undertaking with the unveiling being done by the “Provost” (Mayor) of his home town in Scotland. Along with many government and civic officials, also attending was the Seaforth Highlander Regiment of Vancouver, and “Smokey” Smith, VC.

This memorial, erected by the Department of National Defence, is dedicated to the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. The cenotaph was designed by George Lister Thornton Sharp, who also designed the Vancouver Great War Memorial in Memorial Square, on West Hastings Street in 1923. 

See http://www.chilliwackmuseum.ca/war-memorial/WarMem.html for more information.

Bickford Tower was erected in 1901 as a signaling tower for naval visual communication. It was built at an estimated cost of $8,288, and designed by the Royal Navy’s Officer in Charge of Works, T. Woodgate. The tower bears the name of Admiral Andrew Kennedy Bickford, who commanded Britain’s Pacific base at Esquimalt. 

The tower was among the last of Britain’s Imperial defence works in Canada before they withdrew their naval units in 1905, making way for the Royal Canadian Navy, which assumed control in 1910. The tower is a four-story octagonal brick structure of 1184 square feet and is 50 feet tall. The first floor was the men’s mess room, an officer's room was on the second floor and up the stairs was a men’s room. The stairs continued on up to the signal room. On the platform were both a flagpole and a semaphore. 

Two years after its construction, the tower became obsolete due to the introduction of a military telephone system. The building was later used as a theodolite station for ship weapons alignment and a site for electronic instrumentation. 

This plaque was dedicated to the memory of Captain Frederick Percival Trench of the Royal Navy. He was the Captain of HMS Royal Arthur, the flagship of the Pacific Station in the late 1890s. While off the coast of Mexico in May of 1895, he died suddenly and was buried at sea. 

The Warspite Monument was erected sometime between July 26, 1891 and the end of 1894. The four meter high Celtic cross, made of granite that is not native to Canada, is believed to have been made in England and shipped to Esquimalt. It was erected by parents of the four midshipmen from HMS Warspite who were believed to have drowned in a canoe accident off Albert Head. Their names are inscribed on the monument in order of their academic ranking from HMS Britannia, a training establishment at Dartmouth which they all attended prior to receiving their first appointment to a Royal Navy ship.

On July 5, 1891, HMS Warspite arrived in Esquimalt for repairs from war action in Chile and on July 9, 1891 half the crew were given leave. The four midshipmen set off in two canoes purchased from the locals by Honourable A. Alberic De Montmorency. When they failed to return on Friday, a steam launch was sent for them. One of the canoes was found floating bottom upwards off Beacon Hill by a fisherman. The second was found abandoned at Albert Head with a tin cup and a paddle tied under the seat, mast up, and sail hanging in the water. 

The monument is not accessible to the public, due to a change in the configuration of fencing and property lines.

A monument commemorating the founding of the Canadian Naval Service was unveiled on May 4, 1998, by Vice-Admiral (retired) Nigel Brodeur and Captain (Navy) Jason Boyd, Base Commander. Vice-Admiral Brodeur's grandfather was Canada’s first Naval Minister and instrumental to the establishment of the service. His father, Rear-Admiral Victor Brodeur, served in the Navy as the Commander Pacific Coast during the Second World War and was the first Francophone from Quebec to join the admirality.

To the left of the monument is a seven bladed propeller removed from HMCS Annapolis (DDH 265). This propeller was a revolutionary design at the time. The hull of the vessel is now an artificial reef. The propeller on the right was removed from one of the three HMC Submarines Ojibwa 72, Okanagan 74, and Onondaga 73. It is not likely that it is from Onondaga, as that sub is in Pointe au Pere, Rimouski, Quebec as a museum vessel. The subs were built at Chatham Dockyard in the United Kingdom and were identical to the Royal Navy Oberon Class conventionally powered submarines.

The Canadian Naval Service, now known as the Royal Canadian Navy, was established on May 4, 1910. A plaque identical to the one on this monument is located on the Wall of Valour at Canadian Forces Base Halifax. The founding of the Canadian Naval Service was designated a national historic event by the federal government on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

In the central plaza of the accommodation block at His Majesty's Canadian Ship Venture is a bronze statue of a Venture cadet circa 1954, which was commissioned and donated by the Venture Association on 12 September 2004.

Venture Plan was established in 1954 to address critical Royal Canadian Navy officers shortages that were not being addressed by existing intake plans. Venture was commissioned as the Royal Canadian Navy Junior Officer Training Establishment and located in the Esquimalt dockyard. Its role was to train junior naval officers of the executive, engineering, fleet air arm and naval supply branches during a two-year term of academic education. After that basic training, the various branches received different professional and educational training appropriate to their branch. 

In September 1963, Venture Plan was superseded and intake shifted to the Short Service Officer Plan for maritime officers. In 1968 with the adoption of integration, the Canadian Forces Officer Training Establishment was founded and Venture was phased out and returned to the Esquimalt dockyard.

With the army’s withdrawal of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry from Work Point Barracks, Venture was relocated from the dockyard to several of the ex-PPCLI buildings at Work Point in the fall of 1994.

St. Paul’s Church was built in 1866 on the water’s edge at the foot of Signal Hill. Before that time, dating back to 1858, Anglican services were held in the little school building that once stood on that site. Also, previously, Anglican services were conducted by Royal Navy chaplains aboard their ships for naval personnel and the growing population around Victoria.

In 1904, the building was dismantled as required and relocated to its present site due to proposed firing of large caliber guns on Signal Hill combined with strong winter gales damaging the lead glassed windows, as well as the property was needed by the navy for expansion of its operations. In 1911, it was renamed St. Paul’s Naval and Garrison Church.

Colours were presented to Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) on 14 April 1934, by the Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada, at a parade in the Minto Street Armouries, Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Regimental Colour was emblazoned on it with ten Battle Honours awarded to the Regiment for its actions during the First World War and gazetted in 1919. On 15 Aug 1950, these Colours were designated the Colours of the First Battalion upon the formation of the Second Battalion for service in Korea.

The Colours were laid up on 25 Nov 1959 in St. Paul’s Naval and Garrison Church at the request of the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel J.C. Allan, DSO, MBE, CD. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is affiliated with the church, dating from 1920 when B Company was stationed at Work Point Barracks. The church has three plaques commemorating the service of Patricias who died while serving in Esquimalt. In army circles, the church is still known and fondly referred to as the "Garrison Church.”

When the Regiment was advised that the church was under threat of closure and possible demolition, resulting in the loss of access to the Colours, the Regiment reclaimed them in 1991 and placed them in the Museums of the Regiments in Calgary, Alberta, where they reside today. The church closure and demolition never materialized and only a small portrayal of the Colours remained in the church. Eventually, on 6 May, 2017, to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the church, the Victoria Branch of the PPCLI Association presented to St. Paul’s a framed replica and scroll dedicated to the original 1 PPCLI Colours, placed in 1959. The Colour Officer for the Regimental Colour when laid-up in 1959, Dick Macintosh, presented the plaque. Financial support for this event was provided by both the National PPCLI Association and Regimental Headquarters.