On 28 May 2023, the Nicola Valley First Nations Veterans Association unveiled the finished memorial at the Lower Nicola Indian Band Land (Nicola Mameet - Shulus). Prior to 2005, a group of Veterans and volunteers relocated a large boulder and placed four plaques representing the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, and Vietnam War. A tribute to the late Barney Stirling, the late Paddy Stirling, the late Don Moses, the late John F. Isaac, Percy Joe, Richard Jackson and many other Veterans and volunteers who ensured the First Nations Veterans were remembered, recognized, and respected. The Nicola Valley First Nations Veterans are honoured annually on Remembrance Day.
The original memorial is part of the new monument, which includes three pillars inscribed with the names of 66 First Nations Veterans which includes six who did not make it home and nineteen who recently received a military marker from the Last Post Fund. The back of the monument displays four photos of Veterans who served in either the First World War, Second World War, Vietnam War, or as peacekeepers and artwork, meant to embody freedom, created by a grade 8 Indigenous student from Princeton.
On the site, five steel feathers created by Syilx artist Clint George represent the five local First Nations, and a ceremonial fire pit honours and remembers children with the inscription "Every Child Matters".
