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The Invermere Cenotaph was unveiled in 1925 by Lady Marie Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, Viceregal Consort of Canada (1921–26). It was located at the Canadian Legion building on the point between 7th and 6th Avenues, where the present day Windermere Museum is.

Later, inscriptions were added for the Second World War and Korean War. The cenotaph was moved to its present location, the town center, in 1968.

"Mount Cradock" - This mountain was named in 1918 in honour of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock. He commanded a Royal Navy squadron which was defeated off the coast of Chile in 1914. He went down with his ship, HMS Good Hope.

This memorial is dedicated to the local veterans and war dead of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War and was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 122.

The first local memorial to the Great War was erected before the war had even ended. A wooden tablet, carved with the names of the nine local men who had been killed up until that time, was unveiled on 1 April 1917, on the corner where Cook Street now joins Canyon Street and 10^th Avenue North. 

Major Mallandaine, O.C. of the Forestry Draft, unveiled the tablet with the hope that one day the citizens of Creston might erect a monument of more lasting material. The tablet design was worked out by Major Mallandaine, and the handiwork of Pts. Thompson, Harkness, and Reed. The lettering was the work of Sergeant Crowe, paymaster of the 107^th (East Kootenay Militia).

Within days, there was talk of committees being formed to plan a more permanent monument. In May of 1921, Creston accepted a design by the Kootenay Granite and Monument Co. of Nelson. The design, by H.B. Downs, is 13 feet high and adorned by four bronze wreaths. There are four bronze sockets into which flags may be set for special occasions. The monument is of Sirdar granite, which was brought to Creston and finished – but not polished. A bronze tablet lists the names of the Valley soldiers killed during the war. The memorial was unveiled on November 11, 1922.

"Mount Borsato" - This mountain was named in 1961 in honour of Pte. Leno Borsato from Michel, BC. Pte. Borsato was killed in action on 9 December 1944 while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders.

This memorial to local veterans was erected by the community of Canal Flats.

Dedicated to the memory of the war dead of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War and to Canadian peacekeepers, this cairn was erected by the municipality of Elkford and Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 279 in 2000.

The Fernie Cenotaph was unveiled by Dr. Douglas Corsan on 24 May 1923. He lost two sons in the First World War. His oldest son Tom was among the first to leave Fernie for overseas. Tom was severely wounded twice and in each case went back to the fighting lines once recovered from his injuries. The cenotaph was dedicated to the memory of the local war dead and Veterans of the First World War. Names were later added of those who died in the Second World War and Korean War.

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.

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.

This is one of four existing railway bridges on the old Kettle Valley Railway, now Trans Canada Trail, that were converted from railway bridges to pedestrian/biking friendly crossings for the trail. The crossings were completed by the Canadian Military Engineers, assisted by the Royal Engineers on two of the crossings from 2002 to 2004.  

The bridges were named Canadian Railway Troops Crossing after the First World War Canadian Railway Troops who were part of the Canadian Engineers.   

The location of the four crossings are: Cascade, Grand Forks (first crossing completed, southwest of Cascade Falls), Grand Forks (trail at end of Nagraeff or Popoff Roads) and Grand Forks (near Kettle River Drive and 13th Street).

The National Day of Honour was recognized at Kelowna International Airport (YLW) on Friday May 9, 2014 at 10 am with a plaque presentation by the British Columbia Dragoons, the first and only Canadian Military Unit in the Okanagan. The British Columbia Dragoons is a Reserve Armoured Regiment based in Kelowna and Vernon. The Dragoons earned 12 battle honours in the Second World War and has also provided individual members and formed sub-units to the Regular Force for United Nations operations. The National Day of Honour was designated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in recognition and commemoration of Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan. The plaque will be mounted in the airport arrivals area near the BC Dragoon stone sculpture ‘Coming Home’. The work was commissioned by the British Columbia Dragoons to commemorate its 100th anniversary in 2011. The work was donated by the Dragoons to the City of Kelowna.

‘Coming Home’ was presented to the City of Kelowna on May 14, 2011 by the British Columbia Dragoons in honour of the regiment’s centennial celebrations. Kelowna International Airport was proudly chosen as the placement for display and Coming Home is listed as in the City’s Public Art collection.  The theme of the artwork is a soldier returning home to the Okanagan from a tour overseas and his child running into his arms in an embrace.

While also a painter and portraitist Frances Brazeau’s’ principal medium is stone. Much of her sculpture is glyptic, i.e., directly carved to free the image inside. Often, rough stone remains. Other works are modeled to exploit natural tones and texture or to allow casting. Frances has exhibited and taught painting, drawing and sculpture across Canada.  "The 'Coming Home' sculpture was inspired by the several sketches I did when my husband informed me that the British Columbia Dragoons were trying to think of something special to help celebrate their 100 anniversary. I chose one that I felt most depicted the feelings of both the Armed Forces and their families.....soldiers coming home being greeted by their loved ones. The Canadian Armed Forces has played a large role in my life. My father was in the first world war, my husband was in the Artillery and one of my grandsons is in the Reserves. I have always been proud of our Canadian Armed Forces."