Alberta

This memorial is dedicated to the more the 1600 Alberta air crew who lost their lives in the Second World War. The monument was based on a model by Calgary artist Andrew Hulbert and sculpted by Don and Shirley Begg. It was unveiled 3 September 2004.

This memorial is dedicated to the increase in militia enrolment and the resulting construction of the Mewata Armoury as well as other armouries and drill halls.

Unveiled by the First Alberta Branch, The Burma Star Association, on 15 August 1996, this memorial is dedicated to those who served with the Commonwealth Forces in Burma during the Second World War.

This memorial statue of General Wolfe was erected in 1898.

This memorial, erected by the citizens of Calgary, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War and the Korean War.

This memorial, erected by the citizens of Calgary, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War and the Korean War.

This flame was erected by Calgary veterans on 11 June 1967 in honour of one hundred years of military service.

The 50th Battalion Fountain was erected in 1930 to honour those of the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who died during the First World War. It was erected by the battalion, its Ladies' Auxiliary and the 2nd Battalion, The Calgary Regiment.

The 50th Battalion, which was authorized on 7 November 1914 as the 50th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, embarked for Britain on 27 October 1915. The battalion disembarked in France on 11 August 1916, where it fought as part of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 30 August 1920.

The South African War Memorial was unveiled on June 20, 1914. Only Veterans and their families were allowed in the park, while non-military citizens packed the streets. Boy scouts, fire fighters, and cadets were mobilized to guard the flower beds at the park. The memorial was unveiled by the District Officer Commander Colonel Cruickshank. R.B. Bennett, KC, MP, addressed the crowd.

In 1909, a man was found on the outskirts of city, frozen to death. The only documentation found on him were papers identifying him as a Veteran of the South African War, having been discharged from the Lord Strathcona’s Horse Regiment. The Veterans of Calgary raised funds and provided the man with a proper soldier's funeral and burial.

Word of the soldier's death reached his family in England and they insisted the Veterans be reimbursed the cost of the funeral. When the money arrived, the Veterans decided that it was more important that the memories of their brethren be remembered, and so the reimbursed funeral expenses became the beginning of a fundraising campaign to build a memorial to the fallen of the South African War.

A committee was formed with representatives from the Western Veterans Association, the Canadian Club, Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, and the City of Calgary. In 1911, the committee  approached the world famous French-Canadian sculptor Louis-Phippe Hebert in 1911 to design a memorial.

Hebert himself decided that the Central Memorial Park site was the best location for the statue. He went to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of his first and only equestrian monument. Hebert had a genuine Calgary Quarter Horse sent by train to his Montreal studio and came to Calgary periodically to study the Calgary Horses in their natural environment.

Hebert requested a “typical Canadian army man type” to be sent to him from the Canadian Army, but was given a new recruit fresh off the boat from the United Kingdom instead of an Albertan soldier. Captain Thomas Henry Johnson posed for the statue. When Hebert came to Calgary to make the final arrangements for the monument, he decided to take the opportunity to see “the western horse in its own setting” and make a few alterations to the horse and rider. Hebert had Eneas McCormick dress as a South African War soldier to model for the piece.

On the left side is a bronze plate with King Edward VII's profile and on the right side is a bronze plate with a profile of Queen Victoria. The memorial was completed in 1914. It was the last major piece of artwork Louis-Phippe Hebert completed and the only equestrian statue he ever made.

Erected in 1928 by the citizens of Calgary and area, this large memorial shaft was originally dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War. Inscriptions and plaques to the war dead of the Second World War and the Korean War were added later.