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The Standard's Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial includes the Renfrew Knitting Co. Ltd First World War Roll of Honour.

Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial (ed. Frederic Yorston, Montreal Standard Publishing Company) is a 152 page large magazine-style publication focusing on what the various provinces, people, and companies did to help the Allied cause during the First World War. It was published shortly after the end of the First World War and the majority of ads are for companies in the Montreal area, with some major industries across Canada.

Copies of the publication can be found at Library and Archives Canada or the Quebec Family History Society (QFHS).

Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital was erected in 1962 by the Ontario Provincial Government and dedicated to the memory of the local Veterans of the First and Second World Wars.

This cenotaph is dedicated to the men of the Whitney area who gave their lives in the Second World War. It was erected by the Town of Whitney, and consists of a stone cairn with an artillery gun. The artillery gun is a 155mm, made in Sorel, Quebec in 1955.

General Panet High School was named in honour of Major-General Henri Alexandre Panet, who was born in Quebec City on July 24, 1869. He graduated from the Royal Military College in 1891 and was promoted to Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1894. In October 1899, Captain Panet embarked with the 2^nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment for service in South Africa where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

On return to Canada, he was promoted to Major in May 1901, and appointed Staff Adjutant at the Royal Military College. Following two senior staff appointments, he was appointed to command “B” Battery. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1911 and appointed to command the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Brigade and Commandant of the Royal School of Artillery.

On October 1, 1914, he departed for England and deployed to Flanders with his Brigade in July 1915, seeing action on the Somme. In June 1916, he was promoted Colonel and Mentioned-in-Dispatches, a distinction he was to receive seven times. In December 1916, he was promoted Brigadier-General and appointed Commander, Royal Artillery 2^nd Canadian Division, an appointment he held until April 1919. He was promoted again in May 1921 and served as Commander Number 1 District from 1919 until 1922 and Commander Number 2 District from 1922 to 1923. He was appointed Adjutant General in July 1922 and retired in December 1930. He died in Kingston on August 14, 1951 and was buried with full military honours.

In 2015 the school was demolished. The statue of General Panet, which stood in the front lobby of the school was restored by the Garrison Petawawa Museum.  It is on glass display in the Canex Retail Complex which was built on the former site of the General Panet High School.

The Afghanistan Memorial Monument, designed by Dr. Mike Crouzat, was unveiled on August 20, 2010. The names of 152 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan are etched into the granite maple leaf.

The Afghanistan Memorial Forest is also located here.

The Neder Rijn Engineer Park building is named for the Neder Rijn River where 23^rd Field Company, RCE, evacuated soldiers from the 1^st British Airborne Division during the ill-fated capture of the Arnhem Bridge in September 1944. 

Allied Forces launched OPERATION MARKET GARDEN on 17 September 1944 with the aim of capturing major bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Arnhem and points in between. The capture of bridges at Eindhoven and Nijmegen was successful but encountered stiff opposition, delaying the relieving force from reaching Arnhem and the 1^st British Airborne Division. With limited elements across the Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine) River at Arnhem, by 21 September the 1^st British Airborne Division could no longer hold on and began withdrawing their soldiers across the river. By the night of 25 Sept, a more robust withdrawal plan was put in place- OPERATION BERLIN. Through the efforts of 260 and 553 Field Companies, RE and the 20^th  and 23^rd Field Companies, RCE, close to 2500 soldiers of the 1^st British Airborne Division were evacuated by boat, from the far bank of the Neder Rijn River to a landing point near Driel. As the result of their conduct during this operation, Major M.L. Tucker received the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant R.J. Kennedy the Military Cross, and Sappers H.D. Thicke, D.J. McCready and R. Lebouthillier received the Military Medal.

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 Prince Barracks in CFB Petawawa are named in his memory.

This plaque was erected by officers in memory of the Royal Canadian Dragoons who lost their lives during the South African War.

This access gate is named in honour of John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, a former member of 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers, and one of the pilots conducting the first military powered aircraft flight in Canada. 

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was born in Baddeck, NS on 2 August 1886. He attended St. Andrew’s College in Aurora, ON and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906. During his studies at U of T, he joined 2^nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers, before working with Alexander Graham Bell on the development of powered aircraft. In July-August 1909, he and colleague F.W. Baldwin assembled the Silver Dart and Baddeck I at Camp Petawawa and proceeded to conduct a number of demonstration flights. McCurdy continued his work with Bell’s Aerial Experiment Association and opened Canada’s first aviation school in 1915. He helped create Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. In 1916, producing planes for the Royal Flying Corps. He continued his involvement in airplane production throughout the inter-war years and the Second World War and in 1947 was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. McCurdy died in 1961, following a lengthy illness, and was buried in his native Baddeck, NS.

The Silver Dart, a monument in CFB Petawawa, is in memory of the first military demonstration of powered aircraft flight in Canada that was given at Camp Petawawa on 2 August 1909 by J.A.D. McCurdy and F.W. Baldwin in the Silver Dart. Both pilots, former members of the 2nd Field Company, Toronto and Engineers of No 8 Engineer Services and Works Company, acted as the ‘ground crew.’

Today, an access gate separating the domestic area from the military part of the Base is called McCurdy Gate to further remember one of the pilots. (Also refer to memorial number 35070-039)