Bonaventure Avenue was dedicated to the men and women who served on the last Canada's aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure, by the Canada Lands Company on January 16, 2008, as part of their redevelopment of Edmonton’s former Canadian Forces Base (Griesbach Barracks).
The ship was a Majestic class light fleet carrier, originally to have been HMS Powerful, but the Royal Canadian Navy decided to name her HMCS Bonaventure after the bird sanctuary in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She served in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces Maritime Command from 1957 to 1970. It carried a crew of 1,200, and a force of Banshee jet fighters, Tracker anti-submarine warfare aircraft and Sikorsky helicopters. The Royal Canadian Navy was the only navy in the world at the time, other than the United States Navy, capable of conducting around-the-clock air operations for sustained periods. The Bonaventure was based in Halifax, served primarily in the North Atlantic and was decommissioned in Halifax on 3 July 1970.
The HMCS Bonaventure plaque was unveiled on June 6, 2010.