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Cassino Court is dedicated to the Canadian participation in the Battle of Monte Cassino.

Built in 1940 as one of many training establishments for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), Camp Picton’s 700 acres became home for numerous young Commonwealth airmen undergoing bombing and gunnery training. After the Second World War, the site was used as a storage and equipment maintenance centre for the Royal Canadian Air Force before being taken over by the Royal Canadian Artillery School (anti-aircraft). With the addition of a Permanent Married Quarters (PMQ) area in the 1950’s, the base was expanded and in the early 60’s became the Home Station for the Canadian Guards regiment. The Base was closed in 1969 and the airfield was eventually transformed into an industrial site. The PMQ area was sold to individual homeowners with many of the roads retaining their original military name.

The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The intention was a breakthrough to Rome. At the beginning of 1944, the western half of the Winter Line was being anchored by Germans holding the Rapido, Liri, and Garigliano valleys and some of the surrounding peaks and ridges. Together, these features formed the Gustav Line. Monte Cassino and its abbey, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys, but had been left unoccupied by the German defenders. The Germans had, however, manned some positions set into the steep slopes.

Fearing that the abbey did form part of the Germans’ defensive line, the Allies sanctioned its bombing on February 15. The destruction and rubble left by the bombing raid now provided better protection from aerial and artillery attacks, so, two days later, German paratroopers took up positions in the abbey’s ruins. Between January 17 and May 18, Monte Cassino and the Gustav defences were assaulted four times by Allied troops. The final battle, involving 1 Canadian Corps and 1^st Canadian Armoured Brigade, began on May 11, 1944, and by May 13, the German right wing began to give way. Vicious fighting continued for another five days and on May 18, a patrol of Polish cavalry finally made it to the heights. The German defenders had been driven from their positions, but at a high cost. 

Caen Court is dedicated to the Canadian participation in the Battle for Caen.

Built in 1940 as one of many training establishments for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), Camp Picton’s 700 acres became home for numerous young Commonwealth airmen undergoing bombing and gunnery training. After the Second World War, the site was used as a storage and equipment maintenance centre for the Royal Canadian Air Force before being taken over by the Royal Canadian Artillery School (anti-aircraft). With the addition of a Permanent Married Quarters (PMQ) area in the 1950’s, the base was expanded and in the early 60’s became the Home Station for the Canadian Guards regiment. The Base was closed in 1969 and the airfield was eventually transformed into an industrial site. The PMQ area was sold to individual homeowners with many of the roads retaining their original military name.

This memorial is dedicated to all sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Merchant Marine. It was unveiled on September 21, 2001, by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78.

This memorial is dedicated to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 31 Bombing & Gunnery School at Camp Picton. It was unveiled by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78.

The Picton Canadian Army Memoriali s dedicated to the men and women who have served and are now serving in the Canadian Army. It was unveiled on September 21, 2001, by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78.

This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served, and are serving, in the Canadian Air Forces. It consists of an aircraft propeller mounted on a stand, with a dedication plaque. It was unveiled on September 21, 2001, by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78.

Breadner Elementary School was named in honour of Air Marshall Lloyd Samuel Breadner. The school was closed in 2017 and demolished in 2019.

Lloyd Samuel Breadner was born in July 1894 at Carleton Place. In 1915, he left the family business in Ottawa to enlist in the Royal Naval Air Service. He spent most of the First World War as a fighter pilot in France.

When the war ended, his flying skills earned him a position with the Canadian Air Board and he was appointed as the first Commanding Officer of Camp Borden 3 in 1924. He rapidly moved up the hierarchy and served as Director of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1928 to 1932. In 1936, Breadner received training at the Imperial Defence College. In 1940, he succeeded in G.M. Croil as Chief of the Air Staff.

During the Second World War, Breadner is credited with turning the RCAF into one of the most powerful air forces in the world. On January 1, 1944, he was posted to London as Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, RCAF Overseas. Upon his retirement in 1945, Lloyd Breadner was promoted to Chief Air Marshal, the only Canadian ever to hold this rank. He died in March 1952 in Boston.

This black marble memorial was unveiled on June 19, 2008, and dedicated to the 37 Canadian pilots who lost their lives while flying the CF-104, known as the Starfighter, during the Cold War from 1961 through 1986.

On October 30, 1991, the CC-130 Hercules from 435 Transport Squadron in Edmonton crashed 16 kilometers from Alert Nunavut, while conducting the Boxtop 22 resupply flight to Canadian Forces Station Alert. At approximately 4:40 p.m., flight 22 of Operation BOXTOP – as the biannual resupply mission is called – was on its final approach to the station from Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. As the Hercules, loaded with 3,400 liters of diesel fuel, began its descent, the pilot flying lost sight of the runway. Moments later, radar contact and communication were lost as the aircraft hit a rocky cliff and crashed. The crew of another CC-130 Hercules, also bound for Alert, saw the fires of the crash and identified the location of Boxtop 22. 

Many of the passengers on Boxtop 22 – the 22nd flight of the second major resupply mission of 1991 – were communications researchers from Communication Command, involved in signals intelligence work. Every hour or two, as 12 of the 14 survivors huddled half-frozen in the shattered tail section of the aircraft, Captain de Groot, a physician, called out the names of her fellow survivors to ensure they were still awake and had not succumbed to the cold. The two outside – Sue Hillier and Bob Thompson – could not be brought into the shelter of aircraft tail because their injuries were too extreme for them to be moved. The others built a shelter around them and, against all odds, they survived. 

The survivors, some soaked in diesel fuel, endured more than 30 hours in a brutal storm that brought high winds and temperatures of -20C to -30C with extreme wind chill – all in the 24-hour darkness of the Arctic winter. The first two overland rescue efforts were called back due to weather conditions and dangerous terrain. A search and rescue Hercules from 413 Squadron in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, arrived over the site after about eight hours, but were unable to parachute in because of the high winds and lack of visibility due to cloud cover. When they finally risked the jump, almost all their equipment and medical supplies were whipped away by the wind and disappeared. They made do with what they had, offered shelter, assistance and comfort to the survivors. Shortly after, another group of search and rescue technicians jumped in, followed by a third overland expedition, carrying supplies and equipment.

The survivors and six search and rescue technicians were flown from the site to the station onboard a CH-135 Twin Huey helicopter that had been transported north onboard another Hercules. The remaining search and rescue technicians, the overland rescuers and the bodies of the dead were brought out by American HH-160 Pave Hawk helicopters from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.

Four died almost immediately from injuries sustained during the crash: Captain Judy Trépanier, Master Warrant Officer Tom Jardine, Warrant Officer Robert Grimsley and Master Corporal Roland Pitre. Captain John Couch, the pilot, answered roll call for several hours before finally succumbing to hypothermia – after doing everything in his power to help ensure the survival of the crew. Captain de Groot called out the names one last time at Alert when all the survivors had been rescued and were gathered together in the station’s dining room, which had been turned into a makeshift medical facility. It was the first and last time all 13 were together; they were then flown south to medical facilities to begin the long process of healing.

In 2016, a small contingent of Royal Canadian Air Force personnel, along with Master Warrant Officer Cobden, Master Seaman Montgomery, search and rescue technician Sergeant Ben House (who was part of the first group of search and rescue technicians on the ground), and Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Scott McLean, who was the commanding officer of Canadian Forces Station Alert in 1991 and led the station’s response to the crash, travelled to Alert along with the Boxtop 22 Cairn. The cairn was slung under a CH-147F Chinook helicopter and transported to the crash site where it was unveiled and dedicated. The Hercules wreckage still remains at the crash site.

After being dedicated at the crash site, the cairn was taken to 8 Wing, from where all Boxtop resupply missions now originate, and placed on the grounds of the National Air Force Museum of Canada in front of the CC-130 Hercules on display there. On the front of the granite cairn is a brass plaque that describes the crash and its aftermath. On the reverse are the names of the five who died, the Air Command and Communication Command crests, and an image of a Hercules aircraft surrounded by maple leaves. An identical plaque was placed on a Boxtop 22 cairn that was dedicated in 1993 at Canadian Forces Station Alert. Surmounting the cairn is another piece of granite, carved and engraved to represent the tail of the crashed Hercules.

On October 30, 2016, seven survivors and their families, families of three who perished, as well as rescue personnel and a number of people who were in Alert on that terrible day, gathered at 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario, to mark the 25th anniversary of the crash and unveil a Boxtop 22 commemorative cairn. At the end of the private luncheon before the ceremony, the survivors were asked to stand. “Call the roll, Wilma,” came a voice from one of the tables. Captain de Groot stood and, as she once again called the roll, one by one the survivors in attendance stood and answered her call with “Here!”

The ceremony was open to the public and included a flypast by a CC-130H Hercules. The families of Master Warrant Officer Tom Jardine, Warrant Office Grimsley and Master Corporal Pitre attended the luncheon and ceremony. Master Warrant Officer Tony Cobden – the last Boxtop 22 survivor still serving in the Canadian Armed Forces – Captain (retired) Wilma de Groot, Captain (retired) Richard Dumoulin, Captain (retired) David Meace (who held the rank of master corporal at the time of the crash), Master Seaman (retired) Douglas “Monty” Montgomery, Master Warrant Officer (retired) Marc Tremblay and Sergeant (retired) Paul West were also there. Also surviving the crash were Mr. Robert Thomson, Ms. Susan Hillier, Lieutenant Joe Bales, Lieutenant Michael Moore, and Master Corporal Mario Ellefsen, and Private Bill Vance, who passed away in May 2002.

The workshop at Canadian Forces Station Alert produced engraved wooden replicas of the cairn's plaque. Lieutenant-General Mike Hood, commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, gave the wooden plaques to family representatives of each of the three deceased members, as well as to the seven survivors during the luncheon in Trenton. Plaques were also created for those who were not in attendance.

This memorial commemorates the local war dead of the First World War and the Second World War.