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In October 1927, a monument was erected in Birtle, in what is now the Minicipality of Prairie View, in commemoration of soldiers from the local area killed during military service.

This airport was named in 1998 in honour of Lt. Colonel Barker V.C.

After the First World War, Veterans and community members of basswood and District remembered those who had lost their lives in the service of King and Country by inscribing their names on a granite and concrete memorial erected in the center of the village. The cenotaph was unveiled at a ceremony on 2 September 1923. Embedded in the front is a carved sword pointing downward. At the top of its handle, a bronze dove appears to be bursting from the memorial.

Following the Second World War, a stone with names of those from the district who lost their lives were added. During the First World War, 98 men and one woman from this area served and during the Second World War 108 men and 16 women served.

When the local Legion and Ladies Auxiliary closed in 1973, their funds were donated to the perpetual care of the cenotaph.

The Lansdowne War Memorial was constructed in 1926 and dedicated to the men of Lansdowne Municipality who fell in the First World War. The fifteen foot sculpted figural memorial is made of white Italian marble, the two base stones and the plinth are of Scotch grey granite. The die and large pedestal are Scotch Balmoral red granite on the face of which are engraved names of heroes and memorable battles. The whole memorial is erected on a concrete foundation six feet deep.

Name of those who fell in the Second World War were added later.

Unveiled on 11 November 1927 in a well-attended ceremony, this memorial was the product of local fund-raising by a municipal War Memorial Committee. The memorial is dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War.

The marble statue of a First World War soldier was made in Italy. The details of the collar, epaulettes, and buttons of the helmeted figure have real depth. The fabric of tunic has been sculpted to look pliable, like a real garment over flesh and bone. The face of the figure includes modeling of the cheekbones and chin, the expression in the eyes, and even the hair.

The memorial was originally located in front of the church at the corner of Highway 5 and 3rd Avenue before it was moved to its current location in front of the Community Centre.

This memorial, erected by the Royal Canadian Legion, is dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars.

The Grandview First World War Tablet is set in a triangular shaped plot of land that was originally designated as Grandview Memorial Park. The land was donated by the Town of Grandview. The tablet is of a white stone material with commemorative text and names of the deceased cut into it. 

The Memorial Bell and First World War Tablet were established by the Girls Guild of Grandview to honour men from the Town and District who died in service during the First World War. 

The Grandview Cenotaph is also located here.

The Grandview Cenotaph is set in a triangular shaped plot of land that was originally designated as Grandview Memorial Park. It was donated by the Town of Grandview and it is understood that the Town and the Rural Municipality supported the original construction of the cenotaph which was turned over to Branch 14 of the Royal Canadian Legion to use and maintain.

Originally erected to commemorate those who lost their lives in the First World War, plaques were added in the late 1940’s to recognize those who served and died in the Second World War. In July of 2005, two plaques, one to honour Korean War Veterans and one for Peacekeeping Veterans were added.

The cenotaph sits on an oversized concrete base and is a large cairn constructed of concrete covered with small rounded river stones. Concrete sidewalks are on all four sides of the base and a concrete sidewalk leads southeast to the cenotaph from Main Street. It is lit with three ground-mounted floodlights and a white-painted flagpole sits to the south west of the cenotaph.

A Memorial Bell and First World War Tablet are located to the north of the cenotaph.

The Russell Cenotaph was unveiled at a ceremony on June 22, 1922, in the presence of approximately 2,000 people from the surrounding district. It was erected by local Veterans in memory of the 83 men from the Town of Russell, Village of Binscarth and the Rural Municipalities of Boulton, Russell, Silver Creek and Shellmouth, who laid down their lives in the Great War.

Emanuel Hahn's design represents the sorrows caused by war. The soldier atop the cenotaph looks down in sadness at the ground below him, as if he might find there, his fallen comrades, if not for the tragedy of war. The statue depicts a young, grieving Canadian soldier in First World War army uniform. With uncovered head, he is standing at a battlefield grave – a simple cross with poppies and a broken chain at the base and the flag draped behind it – the final resting place of a comrade killed in action. His left hand rests on the cross, while his right hand holds a reversed rifle. His helmet is slung over his shoulder.

Plaques commemorating the Second World War dead were added on November 11, 1980, as a result of a donation by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 159. In 1999, the head of the soldier atop the memorial was removed by vandals. It was later recovered and reattached. The monument was refurbished in 2000 as a project of the 677 Russell Royal Canadian Air Cadets and funded by a Millennium grant from the Department of National Defence. Additional donations were provided by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 159, Pelly Trail Metis Federation, Town of Russell, and several individuals. 

Emanuel Hahn moved to Toronto at the age of seven with his family of artists and musicians from Germany, in 1888. He studied commercial design and model-making at Toronto Technical School and Ontario College of Art and Industrial Design. At 25 years old Hahn began a nearly lifelong contract with Thomson Monument Company of Toronto. Two years later, he also started work as a studio assistant to sculptor Walter Seymour Allward. Part of his duties included assisting on Allward’s significant works such as the South African War Memorial in Toronto.

In 1912 Hahn began an association with the Thomson Monument Company of Toronto. It was there, along with several assistants, he made the many war memorials that are found across Canada: Fernie, British Columbia; Killarney and Russell, Manitoba; Alvinston, Bolton, Cornwall, Hanover, Lindsay,  Malvern, Milton, Petrolia and Port Dalhousie, Ontario; Gaspe, Quebec; Moncton, New Brunswick; Springhill and Westville Nova Scotia; Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

Hahn is probably most famous as the designer of the Bluenose on the back of the Canadian dime and the Caribou on the back of the Canadian quarter. He was a victim of anti-German sentiment in the years following the Great War, when his design for the Winnipeg Cenotaph was rejected in 1925.

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 228, this memorial is dedicated to the veterans of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War.