Manitoba

The Pillars of Remembrance was erected by the Rural Municipality of Montcalm a few weeks before Remembrance Day, 2020. The two "wings" were constructed of imported jet black granite and the base is light grey granite. It features doves flying above a field of white poppies with one red poppy. The red poppy symbolizes the specific individual being remembered by whoever is at the monument. 

The project began with local Resident Mona Lavalee who basically led it by herself. Montcalm was without a war memorial and it was decided to call it a peace memorial to commemorate past and future Veterans. Funding came through grants, donations from local organizations, and the Veteran's Association. Over $22,000 came from Veterans Affairs Canada, the R.M. of Montcalm, and the Morris Legion Poppy Fund. The Province of Manitoba  added another $10,000 through its Military Conservation Grant.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the official unveiling and dedication was delayed until the spring of 2021.

The parents of Lieutenant James Arnold Victor David erected this memorial to the memory of their son who served and died during World War II. The Memorial was made by McCausland, Toronto, 1959. It includes a depiction of the Winnipeg Grenadiers Crest at the bottom.

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The St. Norbert Cenotaph was financed by a collection from students at St. Norbert Boys School. Principal J.A.M. Cyr donated the funds to Reverend Cure M. Cloutier. The cenotaph was erected between 1921 and 1922, as Cloutier became a Monseigneur in 1922.

Since 2009, a Remembrance Day Service has been held here annually and caring for the monument has become a community project. At the 2019 service, three people attended who were family members of one of the 13 people honoured on the cenotaph. 

Jim Busby, a local amateur historian and researcher, helped research the 13 servicemen from St. Norbert with assistance from the Manitoba Historical Society and Darryl Toews. Among those memorialized on the cenotaph are Charles Leaumorte and Jules Seewald, two French men who were called back to France to serve once war broke out. Leaumorte was a teacher in St. Norbert.

Erected by the city of Winnipeg, this memorial is dedicated to the men and women of Fort Garry who have served in the military.

This memorial is dedicated to the members of St. Augustine United Church who died in the First and Second World Wars. It was erected by St. Augustine United Church and designed by Arthur Alexander Stoughton.

A monument to honour Civil Air Search and Rescue Association volunteers and Military aircrew who lost their lives since the formation of CASARA in 1986, was unveiled in May 1997, at Heritage Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba during the “Manitoba Flood of the Century”. The site is located across the road from the military air force building known as 1 Canadian Air Division Headquarters (Air Com). A bronze plaque on the monument lists the names of the CASARA spotters and military aircrew who lost their lives in June 1986 during the crash of a military SAR Twin Otter while on search in the Kananaskis Valley area. It also lists the names of those killed in a CASARA aircraft that crashed while on search 10 years later in July 1996. The guest of honour for the unveiling was the Honourable Yvonne Dumont, then Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.

North Centennial Recreation and Leisure Facility in Point Douglas was renamed Sergeant Tommy Prince Place in March 2017. Veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and other dignitaries took part in a ceremony to honour Thomas George "Tommy" Prince.

Sergeant Tommy Prince was a prominent Anishinaabe activist who served in the Second World War and Korean War. His story is one of the most widely known examples of the wartime contributions of Indigenous soldiers in the mid-20^th century and the poor treatment they received upon their return to civilian life in Canada. His accomplishments attracted national media attention during his lifetime and earned him a great many posthumous tributes.

Prince was born in October 1915 in St. Peter's Reserve, Manitoba. He was the great-grandson of respected Ojibwa Chief Peguis, and one of eleven children born to Elizabeth and Henry Prince. In 1920, they moved to Brokenhead Ojibway Nation in Scanterbury, Manitoba. At age five, Prince was forced to leave his community and attend Elkhorn Residential School, where he joined the Cadet Corps. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from the residential school before he joined the military.

In 1940, he volunteered to fight for Canada in the Second World War. He rose from sapper to lance corporal with the Royal Canadian Engineers before volunteering for the 1^st Canadian Parachute Battalion in 1942. Soon after, he was assigned to the elite 1^st Canadian Special Service Battalion, which was attached to the First Special Service Force (Devil’s Brigade). He reached the rank of sergeant by war’s end, and was one of three Canadians to receive both the Silver Star (United States) and the Military Medal. King George VI presented him with both honours during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 1945, shortly before Prince’s discharge from the army. 

He wanted to prove his people were as good as any white man and restore their good name. One way to achieve this was to acquire as many medals as possible and he did so without putting his men at risk. Before any patrols he would ensure they were camouflaged and everything was secured. Often he would patrol alone because there would be less noise. Prince was a natural warrior and he excelled as the military developed the skills he learned on the reserve while living off the land. He loved the Devil's Brigade and was always praising his men, "If it wasn't for my men, I wouldn't be who I am today." He was a caring man who loved to joke around and make people laugh.

He was a prominent leader in the Indigenous rights movement of the 1940s. After the war, he served as spokesperson and vice-president of the Manitoba Indian Association, and appeared on its behalf before a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons, tasked with studying the Indian Act. During his testimony in 1947, he advocated for the abolition of the Indian Act and respect for existing treaties, and presented submissions from Indigenous in Manitoba, which called for improved schools, better living conditions, and expanded hunting, trapping, and fishing rights.

In 1950, Prince re-enlisted in the Korean War. He contributed to the defence of Hill 677 in the Battle of Kapyong in 1951, for which the United States awarded the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry the Distinguished Unit Citation—the only time a Canadian unit has received this honour. Military service took a heavy toll on his health and, following his honourable discharge from the army, he faced a difficult return to civilian life in Manitoba. Prince endured discrimination, illness, and poverty in the years that followed and died in 1977. He fought many demons after residential school and the horrors of combat, but he never lost his humility, self-worth, sense of humour and pride of being Anishinaabe. 

The 2006 year of the veteran mural was painted by Charlie Johnson. It considers children from Central School, who graduated and served as soldier, sailor, pilot or nurse. The mural depicts the HMCS Trancona and a Sherman tank.

The mural by Dave Carty features WWI ace William Stephenson with 3 of the 5 Sopwith camels he flew - B7302, C8296 & D6476. He was in charge of intelligence in the western hemisphere, working out of the 36th floor of Rockefeller Centre.