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A Commemorative Plaque was erected at Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario in memory of students and former students who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. Humberside Collegiate Institute is a public high school, established in 1892, which serves the Bloor West Village, Baby Point, High Park North and Junction neighbourhoods.

This Frist World War Plaque is in the 48th Highlanders Museum located in the basement of St. Andrews Church.

The 134th Battalion, which was authorized on 22 December 1915 as the 134th "Overseas" Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, embarked for Britain on 8 August 1916. The battalion provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until 7 March 1918, when its personnel were absorbed by the 12th Reserve Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. The battalion was disbanded on 29 November 1918.

The Canadian Military Institute erected a bronze Great War Memorial Plaque in proud remembrance of those members of the Canadian Military Institute who died for their country in the Great War in the years our Lord 1914-1921. The names are recorded in the Golden Book, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1928. The memorial was unveiled at the house of the Canadian Military Institute in Toronto with full military honours by the Governor General Viscount Willingdon on November 16, 2016 in the presence of relatives and members.

The St. Paul's Anglican Church First World War Tablets are set in the chancel screen which consists of three sections. The two outside sections display the tablets. The chancel screen includes statues of twelve historic figures including Admiral Earl Beatty, King George V, Earl Kitchener, Marshal Foch, Earl Haig, and Lord Byng of Vimy. The carved alabaster screen was made by J. Wippell & Co., of Exeter, England.

Parkdale Collegiate Institute’s war memorials were originally in two separate places. In 1968, a combined memorial for both World Wars was designed and placed on the second floor.

(WWI): Bronze plaque headed: Faithful (PCI) unto death. Under the list of names: In Memory / of the boys of this / school who gave their / lives in the Great War / Their name liveth for evermore. Three columns; given names followed by surnames. Originally installed in the entranceway of the “old” school in 1921. Moved to the front hallway of the “new” school in 1929.

(WWII): Illuminated list designed by A. J. Casson. “For King and Country / 1939 Members of 1945 / Parkdale Collegiate Institute / who have volunteered for active service / with / Canada’s fighting forces.” Six columns. Surnames followed by given names. This memorial begins with Abbot, Frances and ends with Langford. Alan. Key: (red ink cross) “Marks the names of those who were killed in the war.” In 1989, the PCI Centennial Committee restored this memorial.

(WWII): Illuminated list designed by A. J. Casson. “For King and Country / 1939 Members of 1945 / Parkdale Collegiate Institute / who have volunteered for active service / with / Canada’s fighting forces.” Six columns. Surnames followed by given names. This memorial begins with Laphen, John and ends with Young, Florence, and Webster, Lester. Key: (red ink cross) “Marks the names of those who were killed in the war.” In 1989, the PCI Centennial Committee restored this memorial.

(WWII): Bronze plaque: 1939 (maple leaf) 1945. One column. Surnames followed by given names (Adams, Wilbert to Knight, Alan). Parkdale crest and motto: Let Knowledge Grow from More to More. Although this memorial does not specify death in words, its placement on the left side of the memorial to WWI dead, indicates death. Also, the names listed here appear on the A.J. Casson memorial with a red cross indicating “The names of those who were killed in the war.” Originally installed in front of the assembly hall (the auditorium) in 1948.

(WWII): Bronze plaque: 1939 (maple leaf) 1945. One column. Surnames followed by given names (Lewis, Edward to Yeats, Lionel). “So Long as / Parkdale / Shall / Endure / These / Shall Be Revered.” Although this memorial does not specify death, its placement on the right side of the memorial to WWI dead, indicates death. Also, the names listed here appear on the A.J. Casson memorial with a red cross indicating “the names of those who were killed in the war.” Originally installed in front of the assembly hall (the auditorium) in 1948.

(WWI): Copy of recommendation. Hand-written in ink: Canadian Infantry Brigade 4th Canadian Division Frank’s Force Sep. 18th, 1916, Unit 75 Canadian Inf. Bn. Name and rank Lieut. Alan Barrie Duncan. Action for which commended: For conspicuous gallantry at St. Eloi on 17-9-16. When a raid on the enemy trenches being proposed and a gap in the enemy wire having been supposedly cut during the day, by our artillery fire, he undertook to examine the enemy’s wire and locate the gap. He was absent in No Man’s Land from dusk until midnight, most of the time skirting the enemy wire in bright moonlight, and finally succeeded in locating the break, and returned to advise the raiders. He guided the raiding party successfully to the break in the wire and, although not called upon to do so, took part in the raid on the German trenches, and performed conspicuous work in encouraging and directing the men. (Signed) Lt. Col. S. G. Beckett. Below the copy of the recommendation is a photograph of Captain Duncan.

(WWI): Framed obituary: Duncan, Capt. Alan Barrie, M. C., 75th Bn. Canadian Inf. (1st Central Ontario Regt.) 29th Sept., 1918, Age 20. Son of the Rev. George Petrie Duncan, of St. Andrew’s Manse, Port Credit, Ontario, and the late Helena Vivia Duncan (nee Goodwin). His brother, Captain George Gordon Duncan, had died on active service in 1915.

(WWI): Framed photographs: (a) Gravestone: Captain / Alan Barrie Duncan, M. C. / 75th Bn. Canadian Inf. / 29th September 1918. Age 20; (b) view of three rows of gravestones; (c) large memorial cross. Caption below these photographs reads: Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery (Sailly, France) / Burial place of Captain Alan Barrie Duncan, M. C. 75th Bn. C. E. F. / Alan attended Parkdale Collegiate Institute from 1911 to 1916 / (photos by J. Maize, July 2010).

(WWI): Framed display of five World War I medallions, including two examples of a “dead man’s penny.” These were issued to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who died in the war.

(all veterans): Framed commercial “For Valour” poster: Commemorating the sixteen Canadian servicemen awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery during World War Two 1939-1945. A brass plaque at the bottom reads: Presented to / W. Magee and J. Murray / in honour of all P.C.I. veterans / 2001-2002.

Central Technical School,.which was formerly known as Toronto Technical School, has a war memorial sculpture by Alfred Howell. Howell was the first art director of the Central Technical School, which opened the year after the start of the Great War. The war memorial honours alumni who served and in particular died in service. 

The memorial was rededicated in 2015 as part of the school's centenary celebrations.

E. & S. Currie Inc. commissioned the plaque in honour of men of E.&.S. Currie who died in service during World War II.

The plaque is 20060086-001, Canadian War Museum

The Soldier, by sculptor George W. Hill, was dedicated in 1921 to honour the former pupils of Harbord Collegiate Institute who died for humanity in the Great War. The sculptor's name is etched into the base of the statue.

Edward William Hagarty was principal of Harbord Collegiate from 1906 to 1928. He served four years with the Queen’s Own Rifles while an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and was selected to raise the 201st Toronto Light Infantry in January 1916. Competing with several battalions, Hagarty struggled to fill the ranks of the 201st. He toured Toronto schools and cadet corps, emphasized morality and temperance, and promised to raise a liquorless battalion.

The colonel’s 21 year old son, Lieutenant Daniel Galer Hagarty, was expected to leave France in order to join his father as the battalion adjutant. Before he could return to Toronto, he died in action on 2 June 1916 while fighting with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Three months later, Hagarty announced his resignation for personal reasons and disbanded the 201st Toronto Light Infantry. One company went to the 170th (Mississaugas) and another went to the 198th (Canadian Buffs). One year after their son’s death, Hagarty and his wife erected a memorial tablet at Harbord Collegiate.

The memorial was rededicated in November 2005 by the son of Harbord student (Willard) Garfield Weston who had dropped out after three years at the high school to join his countrymen in the trenches of Europe where he was a sapper stringing communications wires across the Allied front.

In November 2014, three names of former Harbord students killed during the First World War were added to a plaque on the school’s memorial statue, known affectionately as “Our Soldier" - Lieutenant Myer Tutzer Cohen, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Craik Irving and Lieutenant Walter Howard Curry.

George William Hill was born in Shipton, Eastern Townships, in 1861. He learned to carve marble in his father’s company, after he graduated from college. Between 1889 and 1894, he left Quebec to study sculpting at the École nationale des beaux-arts and Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to Montreal, he opened a studio and worked with architect Robert Findlay and brothers Edward and William S. Maxwell. Known for his public monuments and war memorials, he is now considered one of the most important Canadian sculptors of the early twentieth century.

Hill designed several monuments commemorating Canadians lost in the South African War, including the Strathcona and South African Soldiers' Memorial in Quebec and Boer War Soldiers Monument in Ontario. At the end of the First World War, Hill was awarded several contracts by towns and cities wishing to pay homage to citizens who had died on the battlefields. Between 1920 and 1930 he designed these monuments: Westmount Cenotaph, Magog Cenotaph, Argenteuil Cenotaph, Richmond Cenotaph, Sherbrooke War Memorial in Quebec; Pictou County War Memorial in Nova Scotia; Soldier's Monument, The Soldier and Nurses’ Memorial in Ontario; and the Soldier's Monument in Prince Edward Island.

The Bank of Nova Scotia Book of Remembrance is held in the Memorial room in the Bank of Nova Scotia, 44 King Street. The head office memorial room honours bank officers who served and died in the Great War and Second World War. The book of Remembrance, which was unveiled September 24, 1953 includes Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Ottawa, and Bank of New Brunswick.

The Book of Remembrance lists the names of all officers from The Bank of Nova Scotia (including the amalgamated banks - The Bank of Ottawa and The Bank of New Brunswick) who died in the First and Second World Wars.

The bank's General Manager, Mr. C. Sydney Frost recorded the names of those who gave their lives in the two World Wars for the book. Mr. A. Scott Carter, who also designed the bank’s seal and coat of arms, spent more than two years hand-lettering and illuminating the book which was completed. The names of the war dead are inscribed on vellum pages with two names on each page. When the book was completed in 1952, the next of kin of each war dead received a replica of the page bearing the name of their loved one.

Of the total of 94 staff members who died in the First World War, nearly 80 percent were 25 years of age or younger with an average of three years of service in the bank. Of the total of 81 staff members who were killed in the Second World War, 57 percent were 25 years old or younger and also had an average of only three years of service in the bank. Most of the First World War casualties were in the Army. In the Second World War, more than three-quarters of those who died were in the Air Force, with the words “reported missing, presumed dead, following air operations” appearing after many of their names in the book.

In 1951, The Bank of Nova Scotia opened their General Office at 44 King Street West in Toronto, Ontario. From the outset of its construction, consideration was taken to preserve a space for a memorial to members of staff who died in the two World Wars. On 24 September 1953, the bank held a service of remembrance to dedicate a special room, known as the Memorial Room, to the memory of those who served. The Book of Remembrance stood on display as the main focal point in this room. The bank no longer has a Memorial Room and the book is now located in the Archives.