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At the Armistice Day service in 1923, Rev S. J. Wickens, Anglican Rector and former army chaplain, deplored the lack of a memorial to the war dead. By June 1924, the local Great War Veterans Association had established its own fund.

Rev Wickens announced at the annual Memorial Service in July 1925 the formation of a new committee headed by A. L. Mason, chairman; J. G. Kellet, secretary; H. L. Rogers, treasurer; and members T. Fairhall, B. Mason, W. J. Schnarr, W. A. Shaver, R. Squires and R. Clark. A sketch of the proposed monument appeared on the service leaflets. The district had been mapped out for canvassing with an objective of $3,000. Funds previously collected had been turned over to the committee in the amount of $1,290.

The site chosen was in front of the Town Hall and the canvas was completed by mid-December. Late in May 1926, a contract was signed with Hooper Marble and Granite of Winnipeg to supply the cenotaph at a cost of $3,350. Emanuel Hahn's grieving soldier was carved of marble in Italy. The foundation was laid and the materials arrived in early September and a dedication ceremony took place on Sunday September 25, 1926. The guest speaker was the Rev Col G. A. Wells together with Major F. G. Taylor, (later Colonel), chairman of the Canadian Pension Commission. The honour of the actual unveiling fell to the padre of the newly chartered branch of the Canadian Legion.

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.

After 1945, a plaque was added to honour those that died in the Second World War.

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.

Plans for the Melita Cenotaph were approved in July of 1931 and it was dedicated on November 11, 1931, to the memory of those who gave their lives in the First World War. In attendance were Mayor Lamont, Lieutenant-Colenel Clingan, E. Willis M.L.A., Honourable D. L. McLeod, Reeve McCallum (Arthur), Reeve Hartry (Brenda), Revs Franklin and Lee, and W. R. Cosgrove Secretary Treasurer of Napinka. This memorial was constructed by the town of Melita and Rural Municipality of Arthur.

The main base of the cenotaph is 10 feet square and is topped by two smaller squares which support the nine feet high and four feet wide column. Names of those who died in the First World War are listed on a marble panel. Walkways lead to the northeast and southwest corners of the park. A driveway leads from the cenotaph to wrought iron gates with brick posts. The cost was about $1,100.

After the Second World War the cenotaph was re-dedicated to include the names of those who died in that war. In 2020, the cenotaph underwent minor renovations - the bottom step was removed and replaced with new brickwork, the stone was supplied from a quarry in Manitoba and the broken pieces were salvaged for a future project. A new plaque was installed commemorating the fallen soldiers of peacekeeping missions and the fallen from Afghanistan. Funds were raised  from Federal and Provincial grants (including the Military Memorial Conservation Grant), Municipality of Two Borders, Town of Melita, Sunrise Credit Union and private donations from the community. The Town of Melita also helped with the labour of restoring the centoaph under the direction of Earl Line who was commissioned for the project.

This monument was constructed by the town of Deloraine in 1953 and is dedicated to the local men who died during the Second World War.

This arch was constructed through the support of the citizens of Deloraine and is dedicated to twenty-seven local men who died during the First World War.

York Memorial Collegiate was erected in 1929 in memory of youth killed in the Great War. The architect Charles Wellington Smith's memorial elements include foyer, auditorium and steps. The memorial mural in the auditorium was painted by John Hall in 1949. The Second World War honour roll lists students who served and in particular were lost in service.

This roll of honour plaque was erected by the Black Creek Pioneer Village and the British Home Children Advocacy and Research Association on July 28^th, 2014. It is dedicated to the 10,000 British Home Children who served and the almost 1000 who gave their lives during the First World War.

From 1863 – 1939, approximately 118,000 children were sent to Canada from the UK. Known as the British Home Children, they ranged in age from toddlers to adolescents, and were sent abroad by institutions such as Barnardo’s, Quarrier’s, The Salvation Army, and the Church of England to become indentured farm workers and domestics. Some were welcomed into homes – many more endured the harshest of conditions. When war broke out in 1914, many BHC saw an opportunity to return to their home country and enlisted as soldiers in an attempt to reunite with the families from whom they were taken. Almost 1000 British Home Children lost their lives in this war serving as Canadian soldiers.

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

This memorial is dedicated to the St. Michael's College School's war dead for the First and Second World Wars, unveiled 8 May 1995. This memorial was created in conjunction with the Tulip Tribute promoted by Canada Remembers to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of VE Day on 8 May 1995. The tulips were planted by Fr. C. Zinger C. S. B. and student volunteers as part of the "Tulip Tribute: Shore to Shore" promoted by Canada Remembers in 1994. The memorial was created at the instigation of Fr. W. O'Brien, C. S. B., himself a veteran and the school's founding archivist. (Refer to memorial number 35102-004)

This memorial is dedicated to the St. Michael's College School's war dead from the First and Second World Wars, Korea and in peace time, unveiled 10 June 2000. The memorial lists the name of each student killed. Some served with other Allied forces but all attended St. Michael's College School. Not all were graduates of St. Michael's College School. This memorial was created in conjunction with the Tulip Tribute promoted by Canada Remembers to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of VE Day on 8 May 1995. The tulips were planted by Fr. C. Zinger C. S. B. and student volunteers as part of the "Tulip Tribute: Shore to Shore" promoted by Canada Remembers in 1994. The memorial was created at the instigation of Fr. W. O'Brien, C. S. B., himself a veteran and the school's founding archivist. (Refer to memorial number 35102-005)