History

The first year was extremely difficult as we had very limited funding and almost no help. In 2015 we dedicated the park and added the first few stone monuments and gardens. In 2016 we had our first ceremony to remember World War II and D-Day.

In the next few years we added the Vimy Ridge Memorial Garden, the Korean War Monument and the pow Monument. The biggest addition was adding our peacekeeping day Stone and in 2018 we started the tradition of holding a Peacekeeper Day ceremony every August. We also started serving a luncheon to our Veterans and guests twice a year during these ceremonies. By 2019 we had added for memorial benches and seven flag poles. The park and the association had a lot of momentum until 2020 when covid happened. The next two years were very dismal as we had to stop doing our ceremonies and we could not add any new monuments. We also lost a lot of members in the association for various reasons.

In 2021 we started adding new members to our association and we started doing Remembrance Day services at the park. In 2022 we added three new monuments for the Dieppe Raid, the battle for Hong Kong and the Liberation of the Netherlands. We also started doing ceremonies to violate these events. In 2023 we did five different ceremonies to commemorate Vimy Ridge, The Liberation of the Netherlands, World War II, Peacekeeper Day and Korea Veterans Day, the Battle of Hong Kong and the Dieppe Raid, and Remembrance Day.

By 2025 Remembrance Gardens was 11 years old and at this point we have 17 large monuments, over 120 individual memorials, 32 trees dedicated to Canadians who served Canada, flagpoles featuring different military flags, four Lest We Forget memorial benches and a poppy Garden that is 5,625 square feet and shaped like a large poppy.