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An official groundbreaking ceremony was held August 4, 2016 at the site for the Quinte West LAV III Monument. The project was spearheaded by the Honorary Colonels Group at 8 Wing/CFB Trenton. The monument was constructed from demilitarized LAVs used during the mission in Afghanistan and spare parts from manufacturer General Dynamics Land Systems Canada in London.

Dozens of Canadian soldiers were either killed or wounded in Afghanistan while riding in a LAV III armoured vehicle. The LAV III took quite a beating, but it’s important to know it saved a lot of lives as well. The armoured vehicle was moved to its concrete pad on September 23, 2016, next to the Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial where the names of 158 Canadian soldiers killed during the mission in Afghanistan are carved in granite.

Quinte West is extremely proud of its military heritage, being the home of Canada’s largest military air force base, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton. Honorary Colonels Group at 8 Wing began discussing the project in late 2015. They raised money to complete the project, the city helped, Wayne Scaletta transported the LAV to the site and Cooney Excavating was hired to construct the base for the monument.

The LAV III Monument program was launched in November 2014 with a prototype sponsored by the Federal Government and built by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada. Subject to government approval, it’s estimated up to 250 LAV III Monuments will be made available through the application process to communities across the country.

The LAV III Monuments are built from demilitarized LAV IIIs by Militex Coating Inc. and Fanshawe College students in London, Ontario.

On Jul 21, 2016 Deputy Mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Ward 34 Don Valley East) received, on behalf of the Mayor and City Council, a new public art sculpture donated by the Italian-Canadian community through the Peace Through Valour committee of Villa Charities.

The large bronze sculpture, called Peace Through Valour, presents a 3D printed bronze topographical map of the town of Ortona, where Canadian soldiers fought the fiercest battle in the Italian Campaign, and achieved one of the greatest victories of the Second World War. At each of the four corners of the map, a slightly less than life-size bronze statue of a Canadian soldier stands vigil.

This monument commemorates the more than 93,000 Canadian soldiers who took part in the Italian campaign of the Second World War. Several veterans of that campaign were at the dedication ceremony Jul 21, 2016 today and helped unveil the sculpture. The work was created by internationally known Canadian artist Ken Lum.

This work conveys the accomplishments of our Canadian veterans while also creatively illustrating the immense destruction of war.

Former senator Consiglio Di Nino led the Peace Through Valour committee. The sculpture is part of the City of Toronto's permanent Public Art and Monuments Collection

The Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service Window is the first window in the Soldiers' Tower Staircase of Honour. It depicts a member of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service raising the Royal Canadian Navy ensign.

The Staircase of Honour features a series of eight stained glass windows honouring the Canadian Armed Forces in action during wartime. The windows were officially dedicated on May 26, 2005, by the Honourable James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

The three stained glass windows along the first flight of stairs, on the north wall, commemorate women’s service in the Second World War: Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS), commonly known as Wrens, Canadian Women's Army Corps, and the Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division).

Turning and mounting the next flight, one passes three larger windows on the south wall honouring all those who served in the Armed Forces during both World Wars: Air Force, Navy, and Vimy Ridge. Ascending the third and final flight of stairs, two small windows are on the north wall: Canadian Merchant Navy and the Auxiliary Services of The Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army and the Young Men’s Christian Association.

All eight windows in the Staircase of Honour were designed and installed by the Goodman Zissoff Stained Glass Studio of Kelowna, British Columbia — formerly the Russell C. Goodman Stained Glass Studios of Parry Sound, Ontario, which created the Memorial Window in the Memorial Room of the Tower.

This airport is named in honour of Air Marshal William Avery “Billy” Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED. The airport was opened in 1939, and renamed Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on November 10, 2009. It is managed by Toronto Port Authority.

William Avery Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on 8 February 1894. During the outbreak of the Great War, he was a cadet at the Royal Military College, in Kingston. He enrolled in the 9th Mississauga Horse, Canadian Expedition Force, on 30 September 1914, and he later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Bishop, who already had the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, became the first Canadian Airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his single-handed early morning attack on an enemy airfield near Cambrai, France. On 2 June 1917, he found seven aircraft on the ground; he attacked and destroyed three, and was later credited with the destruction of the remaining four aircraft. Bishop continued air operations until August 1917 and returned to the front in June 1918. He emerged as the British Empire’s second highest scoring ace, with 72 official victories.

In the Second World War, Bishop was an Air Marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and assisted in recruiting. He later died in Palm Beach, United States, on 11 September 1956.

This memorial was erected by alumni and unveiled in 1944. The stained glass window is dedicated to alumni who served, and in some cases died during the First and Second World Wars.

Thomas Charles Cogwagee Longboat was the son of George Longboat and Elizabeth Skye. Born on July 4, 1886, he was of the Onondaga Nation from Six Nations Territory.

In 1905, as a teenager he won the five-mile Victoria Day race at Caledonia, Ontario. Longboat won the 1906 Hamilton's Around the Bay road race, the oldest road race in North America event, by more than three minutes. In 1907, he won the Boston Marathon with a time nearly five minutes faster than the previous best. He represented Canada in the 1908 Olympics. His status as a racing celebrity was solidified in 1909, when he won the world professional marathon championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

At the age of 29, he set aside his athletic career to enlist. As a dispatch carrier with the 107th Pioneer Battalion in France, Longboat ran messages and orders between units. He also kept in competitive form by racing in inter-battalion sporting contests, many of which he won.

The famous runner was wounded twice during his time of service. Once he was mistakenly declared dead in the battlefields of Belgium, after being buried in rubble as a result of heavy shelling. He survived the war and returned to Canada in 1919. He served as a member of the Veterans Guard in the Second World War while stationed at a military camp near Brantford, Ontario.

Tom Longboat died in 1949 at the age of 62. He is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the Indian Hall of Fame.

On 5 November 1922 a set of stained-glass windows were unveiled on the north side of Church of the Holy Trinity. The window was dedicated to the 32 parishioners of the congregation who had lost their lives in the First World War. The ceremony and unveiling were conducted by Bishop William Day Reeve and Canon W. L. Baynes-Reed, who drew apart two large Union Jacks to reveal the newly installed memorial window pieces.

Designed and constructed in the Tiffany style by the Robert McCausland Co. Ltd., the two top panes of the window depict the crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, John, and Mary Madeline and the lower panes depict the meeting of Jesus with his disciples on the way to Emmaus. The window was erected by members of the congregation.

A tall stone pillar carrying two Ontario historical plaque, one in English and the other in French, surrounded by cannons, mark the location of Fort Rouillé, a French fort destroyed in 1759.

This plaque was erected in 1963. The title of the Plaque is Stanley Barracks.

The title of this plaque is Queen's Rangers. It was erected in 1979.