In addition to delivering the Funeral and Burial Program, the Last Post Fund supports other initiatives designed to honour the memory of Canadian and Allied Veterans.
The National Field of Honour is distinct among Canadian military cemeteries in that all the headstones are laid flush with the ground.
The entrance to the National Field of Honour is through the Gate of Remembrance, a medieval arch flanked by twin towers.
It has served a number a purposes through the years once as the home of the groundskeep and for a time housed the Last Post Fund archives.
Harold J. Doran is often recognized as the architect of Benny Farm in NDG, built in 1946–47, a social housing project for World War II veterans.
Sir Arthur commanded the Canadian Corps in World War I, and went on to serve as the principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University as well as president of the Last Post Fund from 1924 to 1932.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established in England by royal charter in 1917, eight years after the inception of the Last Post Fund.
Formed by Major General Sir Fabian Ware, it marks and maintains the graves of Commonwealth service personnel who were killed in action or died of other causes in the two World Wars, and builds memorials to those who have no known grave and keeps records and registers, including a record of the Civilian War Dead.
[10] This monument was donated in 2003 by Flight Lieutenant Howard Ripstein, a former director of the Québec Branch of the Last Post Fund.
This is a pair of duel six-inch cannons in commemoration of the memory of Canadian and Allied soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice.
This circle is named after Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel de Salaberry (1778–1829), the distinguished commander of the Canadian troops who halted the advance of invading American forces during the Battle of The Châteauguay on 26 October 1813, during the War of 1812.
A French-Canadian nobleman, he served in the British Canadian army and commanded the troops in Lower Canada at the time.
This plot contains the oldest graves in the National Field of Honour, those of soldiers who fought in campaigns in Canada and around the world as long ago as the 18th century.
Relocating the remains of some 1,797 burials prior to the construction of the bridge in 1944, and preserving the headstones, was the most formidable single project in the history of the Last Post Fund.
Fortunately, in May 1944, Sydney Ham voluntarily transcribed all of the information from the headstones and through long, difficult research compiled a comprehensive roster of those buried in the Papineau Cemetery.
At the center of this circle stands an obelisk dedicated to Sir Benjamin D'Urban, commander of the British Forces in North America who died in Canada in 1849.
The Peace Monument was designed by the artist Jean Bernard, a World War II Royal Canadian Air Force Veteran.
The water garden was funded in part by the Ferguson Foundation, and it is intended to mirror the tranquillity of the Peace monument.
This is being achieved with a twelve-unit Columbarium, offering a choice of over eight hundred exterior niches for cinerary urns.
For 2011, plans have been drawn to build a new modernized Arthur Hair Reception centre to meet the growing demands of technology which have yet to be filled.