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After the First World War, a reredos was offered as a memorial to members of St. John's Anglican Church who had died in the war. The reredos was destroyed in the 1960 fire. 

The Victoria Canadian Pacific Railway Great War Tablet was dedicated in the Steamship office on April 28, 1922. It was relocated to the Royal British Columbia Museum. 

To honour those who served and gave their lives during the Great War, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) erected a series of bronze memorial tablets in over twenty select locations along their railway system and offices in Canada, United States, England and China. The tablet depicts Britannia, the national personification of Britain, as a helmeted female warrior with a lion to her right and a shield at her feet, HMS Lion (Admiral Beatty's flagship during the Battle of Jutland) with airplanes above and a tank in front, Canadian Pacific Steamship RMS Empress of Russia (used during the war as an armed merchant cruiser and transport ship), Canadian troops, and a CPR locomotive in a nod to all those who travelled by train across Canada before heading overseas. The plaque was designed by Archibald Pearce, Chief Engineer's Department, Montreal, with its model and casting by the Bromsgrove Guild at Worcester, England.

All tablets were unveiled simultaneously on the same date along with three identical Winged Victory memorials in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.

Victoria High School has 24 stained glass windows that were designed by Eric Clarke, the same art teacher who designed the First World War Memorial Tablet. The windows were installed sometime after the First World War. There are two designs - the intertwined letters VHS, the Victoria High School logo, flanked by a poppy on each side; and a shield with a banner crossing it diagonally, flanked by a poppy on each side.

There are six windows in the auditorium, three on each side. These are all the VHS logo design. Each above-ground stairwell in the 1914 building has three windows that climb the wall beside the stairs. There are two stairwells on each floor – one on the Girls’ (east) side of the building, and one on the Boys’ (west) side of the building. These designations have not been followed for decades, but remain on the exterior of the updated building as a historical reference. There are three stairwells going up each side of the building, first to fourth floors. The 18 windows in the stairwells alternate between the two designs.

The graduating classes of 1916-17 and 1917-18 created this Roll of Honour by handwriting the names of every soldier from Victoria High School who fought in the Great War. They were assisted by J.S. McMillan with the design and execution. Included are the names of 499 soldiers, teachers, students and nurses with a red diamond beside the names of the fallen. Each name represents a person who was in this high school and walked the same halls that students, administrators and guests now walk.

This brass shield bares the names of the 121 Victoria High School alumni who died in the Second World War.

In the Spring of 1948, Victoria High School students and staff raised funds to create a track and field complex to honour those that had served in the Second World War. Completed in 1949, the facility was known as Memorial Stadium.

Demolition of part of the Memorial Stadium began in August of 2020. Renovations to the school meant the north stands of the stadium had to be removed as part of the work. The memorial element of the stadium will be incorporated as part of the renovated facility and stadium renewal.

The Memorial Tablet was cast in the early 1920s by Victoria High School's art teacher Earl (Bunny) Clarke and unveiled by Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Walter C. Nichol on November 11, 1925. Funds were raised by staff, students, alumni and citizens. 

Clarke selected a female figure to demonstrate motherhood and sisterhood. The woman symbolizes grief. She holds a spray of flowers in her right hand and supports a shield with her left hand. Miss Margaret Hallam, the school's secretary, was the model used by Clarke for the right arm and hand.

The names of three teachers and 82 students who laid down their lives for their country in the First World War are engraved on the shield. The war was a time for patriotic heroism and the school took pride in its 11 military crosses and seven military medals.

The Victoria High School Great War Banner, which dates from Spring 1920, was made of linen flag cloth and designed to hang from a window of the upper floor of the school on the east side, facing Fernwood Street. Originally donated to the school by the Victoria Women's Canadian Club, it remained in storage for many years before being rediscovered in 2004.

The banner measures 10 feet 6 inches wide by 30 feet tall, and its white main field is fringed by a red border. There are seven white maple leaves along the top red border, one for each of the seven Nursing Sisters known to be connected with the school. Below these are nine maple leaves in three rows: three blue in the top row, then three red, then three blue. The red leaves memorialize the three teachers who were casualties of the war and are flanked by the blue leaves of their colleagues. 

Beneath this are leaves representing members of the student body who were at one time connected to the school, some having been students before the war began. There are 53 red maple leaves and 397 white maple leaves. Fifty-three red leaves honour the casualties of war known at the date of the banner’s creation. The 397 white leaves represent those who survived the war. The 53 red leaves are in the shape of an elongated shield, similar to the plaque of honour on the Memorial Tablet in the school’s main hall where the names of the fallen are listed.

Each maple leaf was handsewn onto the banner. The total of maple leaves, each representing a known individual connected to the school, is 466. The Great War Banner continues to be hung from the fourth floor windows on Remembrance Day.

On April 20, 1917, some 2,500 citizens gathered as 14 silver maple saplings were planted along the Vining Street entrance roadway, now a walkway, to honour Victoria High School students killed in the Battle of Ypres. The Women’s Canadian Club donated the trees and organized the ceremony. 

The dying trees were removed by the school district in 2011 and new trees were planted and rededicated on November 10, 2011. Red maple was chosen, in honour of both the original memorial trees and of the maple's symbolic significance to all Canadians. At the ceremony, the Victoria High Great War Banner was displayed hanging from the school facing Fernwood Road, as it was originally displayed in 1920. 

Another oak was planted the same day in 1917 as the original 14 maple saplings, along Grant Street between Fernwood and Camosun. It still stands in honour of British Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, also a casualty of the First World War.

Central Saanich Cenotaph was erected in 2018 by the District of Central Saanich. The cenotaph is a symbol of the loss and sacrifice Veterans have made for Canada.

It was designed by Small and Rossell Landscape Architects. On the left side is artwork by a local Indigenous artist, Charles Elliott. His piece symbolizes a human being watched over by eagles, a sacred and wise creature; it also recognizes the contributions and losses of Indigenous peoples during conflicts. The right side is engraved with Canadian maple leaves to symbolize all Canadians who have served.