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The 1812 Peace Garden, which commemorates the War of 1812, was erected by the Tecumseh Area Historical Society Thursday 06/21/2012. The town was named in honour of Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, who was leader of a First Nations confederacy and military leader in the War of 1812. The 1812 Peace Garden is a component of the Tecumseh Parkway, driving route running along the Thames River that will connect many sites of cultural, historic, natural and commercial interest. The parkway includes a number of stops at significant sites along the route, including the Tecumseh monument near Thamesville which marks the site of the Battle of the Thames, in which the legendary Shawnee Chief was killed. Along the route are various sites, including Tecumseh Park in Chatham, where encamped British troops successfully skirmished with the advancing Americans.

The Tecumseh Mural was unveiled on 3 July 2022. The mural honours the Canadian Armed Forces, the poppy, and Colonel Paul Poisson - the Town of Tecumseh's first mayor.

Earl Haig Secondary School is named after Field Marshal The 1^st Earl Haig. The school was established in 1928, shortly after the Early Haig’s death.

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1^st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was born in Scotland in 1861. Joining the British Army, he served as a cavalryman in the Sudan and South Africa and after the South African War rapidly rose through the ranks. When the First World War broke out, Haig commanded the British 1^st Corps and in 1915 he was appointed Commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, a position he held until the end of the war. He oversaw the terrible battles of the Somme of 1916. In 1918, he extended the British section of the Western Front southwards, his troops suffering terrible losses at the hands of the German offensive. After the war, he devoted himself to the welfare of his men. He spent his later years traveling the British Empire initiating charities to aid those who had served with him.

The Brooklin Legion unveiled a new cenotaph on September 30, 2019 honouring the men and women of Brooklin and surrounding area who served in Canada's conflicts and especially to those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It took the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 152 about two years to raise the $75,000 needed for the granite cenotaph. The Brooklin Legion traditionally held its annual Remembrance Day ceremony outside Luther Vipond Memorial Arena. But with changes expected because of the expansion of Highway 7, the cenotaph was erected at the Brooklin Community Centre and Library, which is within marching distance of the Legion. The Brooklin Legion will hold it’s first Remembrance Day ceremony at the new cenotaph in November 2019.

The Founding of Ajax Plaque was erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. It is dedicated to the establishment of a munitions plant during the Second World War and Ajax being a temporary campus of the  University of Toronto for thousands of Veterans returning from the Second World War.

The town name is from the British cruiser HMS Ajax, which was a key player during the Battle of the River Plate, the first Allied Naval victory in the war. In December 1939, a flotilla of British warships, including HMS Ajax, HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles, commanded by Commodore Harry Harwood, engaged and crippled the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee near the Uruguayan port of Montevideo. The German ship fled to into the port, but rather than face the overwhelming British force, the Captain scuttled his ship. The Town of Ajax takes its name from this famous battle.

Dedicated to the men and women who participated in insurgency operations and to Sir William Stephenson "The Man Called Intrepid". It was erected by the Town of Whitby. This memorial to Camp "X" is located at the site of the British Special Training School No. 103 which operated from 1941 to 1946. William Stephenson enlisted as a Canadian Engineer in 1914 and saw action early during the First World War as a signaller with the 101st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Sgt Stephenson was badly wounded during a gas attack and, after recuperating, was commissioned into the Imperial Army and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He served with distinction during the war and was decorated several times for conspicuous gallantry and skill – being awarded the Military Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre. During the Second World War, William Stephenson was appointed Director of British Security Coordination as well as Prime Minister Churchill’s personal representative to President Roosevelt. He was recognized for his services to the Commonwealth during the war years by being knighted in 1945 as well as receiving the United States Presidential Medal for Merit (that country’s highest award for a civilian) and the Order of Canada.

This memorial is dedicated to the members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 112. This soldiers' plot was established by the Legion in 1931. A wooden cross was dedicated in 1936 and was replaced by the present stone cross in 1959. The cross is surrounded by individual markers laid out in rows on the ground. 

This memorial is dedicated to the casualties of the First and Second World Wars. It is also dedicated to the veterans of the Korean War. It was erected by the Whitby War Veterans Club, 1924.

William "Bill" Hardcastle was trained during the Second World War at Camp X, an excellent location for transferring code. With a shortage of expert radio operators, Bill realized that any hope of being posted as a secret agent overseas was dwindling. There was a much greater need for trained personnel to build and operate Camp X.

The building that would house Hydra was the most mysterious looking building at the Camp. It was a four-sided structure, completely open on the inside, with windows all around but placed seven feet above the ground for obvious reasons of secrecy. The building had only one entrance and that was at the front; two large doors making it easy to bring in large equipment. One day, not long after Bill arrived, a large van drove into the Camp and delivered crates of communications components. When it all was unloaded, someone yelled, “Go to it, fellows!” Bill and his mates proceeded to build a complete, working communications installation from a photograph. They hooked it up, and Hydra was born.

Bill completed his course at Camp X and was trained to intercept, decode, re-code and then transmit messages back to North America. Bill and his partner Jack, from Toronto, were to cover South America as far south as Lima, Peru. They were advised that the plan had been aborted and they would not be needed.

Bill went off and joined the Air Force which he had tried to do earlier, but was not called up because of his colour blindness. It was now wartime and the Air Force overlooked the colour blindness because they were short of wireless operators. The exact day Bill joined the Air Force, he was told that he was needed right away for coding. He attended one course at the Air Force training centre before he was assigned to Montreal, Quebec, as an instructor-in-training. He was informed that he was to be an instructor and the very next day he was back at Camp X wearing a Royal Canadian Air Force uniform. He was given permission to keep the uniform as he was entitled to wear it, which he did proudly.

Once the equipment was operational, Bill Hardcastle and Bernie Sandbrook personally sent the very first messages to England. Bill and his colleagues received German messages which had been intercepted by agents in South America, re-coded, and then sent along to Camp X. 

Anticipating a particularly busy day, Bill Hardcastle, Hughey Durant and Bernie Sandbrook were asked to work in the Communications Building on the Morse machines. Bill recalled that he was working the teletype machines. The raw data would come in through Hydra and flow through to the Communications Building where it would be printed out in five-letter code. Bill and the others were receiving coded messages from England that particular day, turning them around and Morse Coding them to British Security Coordination in New York. Suddenly, a flurry of the highest level of priority messages starting flying out onto the printer, one after the other.

Bill was so alarmed by this seemingly endless stream of about fourteen messages that he did exactly what he was trained to do; he dropped everything else and started pounding out the keys to New York as quickly as he could. At the same time he turned to his fellow mates and said, “Hey boys, I think this is it! I think the invasion has started!” An excellent guess; it was June 6, 1944, D-Day.

The St. Andrew by-the-lake Anglican Church First World War Window is a memorial to the 58 Islanders who gave their lives in the First World War and was created by the N.T. Lyon Company in 1919. The window was unveiled and dedicated on August 3, 1919. The unveiling was performed by Brig.-Gen. C. H. Mithcell, C.B., C.M.G., D.W.O. Bishop Reeves delivered the dedicatory address.

The names of 46 soldiers who died were read aloud at the service. Subsequent to the service, it was determined that an additional 12 Islanders died serving in the war.

The window is a beautiful work of ecclesiastical art. The center section depicts the crucifixion, with the Holy City in the background. On either side are the figures of Mary and Saint John, while beneath is a scene on the battlefield with a Red Cross nurse tending a wounded soldier in the foreground.