Frezenberg Avenue was dedicated to the members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry who fought in the Battle of Frezenberg, May 8-13, 1915, by the Canada Lands Company on January 18, 2006, as part of their redevelopment of Edmonton’s former Canadian Forces Base (Griesbach Barracks).
Though dangerously exposed and badly outnumbered, the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry held the front and beat back repeated German assaults in the Battle of Frezenberg. As stated on the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry war monument in Frezenberg, ‘They held firm and counted not the cost’. By the end of the battle only four officers and 150 men of the 650 who had lined up before the battle were left standing. The Patricia’s commemorate the Battle of Frezenberg annually.