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This memorial is dedicated to those who served their country and was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 280.

This memorial was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 123 and is dedicated to the men and women of the Canadian military who died while in service. It was constructed in 1967 in memory of The Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives in defense of their Country. The memorial was made of cement and stuccoed with a metal cross located on the top of the Cenotaph. In September, 1990, the memorial was refaced using quartizite and tinole stone. The corners, base, and cross were reinforced with cement. The 90MM anti-aircraft gun was obtained in 1967 from the west coast. The gun was mounted on a cement base. Wreaths are laid by the memorial each November 11th.

Erected on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion, this monument is dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars and Korea.

On June 13, 1992, the Bassano Cenotaph was dedicated by Reverend Gil Arthur of Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 10 in Strathmore. The rock was excavated years ago on the north side of the Bow River by Peter Burrows and Arnold Armstrong. It was hauled to Bassano and offered to the Agriculture Society for a weight guessing contest at the Fall Fair. When the contest did not happen, the rock was set down by a shop at Fourth Street and Second Avenue. The Library Board obtained the rock when the shop was demolished and it was set it down in the small park next to the library by Bob Havens.

The Bassano Memorial Library was opened on June 23, 1984 and dedicated to those from the area that served in the Boer War, First World War, Second World War and Korean War.

The Great War Memorial Hall was built to commemorate Strathmore's fallen in the First World War. It was funded through public funds, a $2,000 grant from the Municipal District of Bow Valley and a $500 donation from the town of Strathmore. Mayor G. F. Butler and Frank Skene, reeve of the Municipal District of Bow Valley, were the first to turn the sod on May 21, 1921. The hall was opened on July 11, 1922.

On June 6, 1986, a small civilian aircraft with Kenneth Wolff pilot and passenger Orvall Pall, a well respected wildlife biologist crashed in the area of the Kananaskis Valley of BC. Later the same day on June 6, Hayden Evans, Rod Harradence and Bruce Pratt, friends of the missing aircraft crew lost their lives searching for the lost aircraft. Their small Cessna aircraft was located the same day crashed into the Northeast face of Mount Lougheed.  

On June 14, 1986, Rescue 807, a Royal Canadian Air Force Twin Otter from 418 Squadron Edmonton arrived on-scene in the Kananaskis Valley to begin its search for the missing aircraft with pilot Kenneth Wolff and passenger Orvall Pall on board. The RCAF aircrew members on board the Twin Otter were Captain Wayne Plumbtree, Captain Ted Kates and Sergeant Brian Burkitt, and five civilian Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA) spotters, Carl Grant, David Hall, Patricia MacLean, Charles Masur and Jerome Schindler. 

Captains Plumbtree and Kates were tasked to search in a mountainous area , and soon after, the unthinkable happened. Their aircraft flew into a large rock outcrop. All eight people on board died in the crash. A subsequent investigation showed that the pilots were most likely fooled by light conditions that visually blended a mountain outcrop into the mountainside behind it. They did not see the outcrop until it was too late. 

On July 18, 1986, the wreckage of the aircraft carrying Kenneth Wolff and Orvall Pall, was located just below Guinn’s Pass in southern Alberta. 

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On February 5, 2015, Sergeant Mark Salesse was taking part in a military training exercise with three other members of the 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron in an ice climbing area in Banff National Park known as the Polar Circus when he was caught in an avalanche. 

Cenotaph park was upgraded with benches, improved walkways and landscaping in 2017.

Painted by local artist Robyn Cooper of Airdrie.  Dedicated in memory of the service of women in World War II.  Images of the following Corps:  Canadian Women's Army Corps, Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (Wrens), RCAF (WD) and Nursing Sisters.