Other

City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-055
Type
Address
165 St.George St
Location
Phi Delta Theta - Ontario Alpha Chapter
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.670691258649, -79.400803655136
Inscription

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF

 

Albert Edward Cuzer

James Henry Oldham

Robert Douglas Patterson

Harold Brant Preston

Colin Simpson

Kenneth Ian Somerville

Stewart Macon Goodeve

Gerald Edwin Wells

Frederick Arthur Huycke

 

MEMBERS OF ONTARIO ALPHA OF

PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

IN COELA QUIES EST

 

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Doug North
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Plaque
War or Conflict Term
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Body Content
This plaque commemorating the loss of nine Fraternity Brothers is located in the present day Chapter House of Phi Delta Theta at the University of Toronto at 165 St.George St.

It was originally installed at the fraternity house at 143 Bloor St. West in Toronto in the fall of 1919. When the University of Toronto purchased the property to make way for the bleachers at Varsity Stadium, it was relocated to the present house at 165 St. George St., two blocks north of Bloor. It has been located there since 1953.

It is illuminated with a light above it which is never to be turned off. We participate annually in the U of T Hart House Remembrance Day events and place a wreath at Soldiers' Tower.
City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9793
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-054
Type
Address
25 King Street West
Location
Commerce Court North
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6488106, -79.3791502
Inscription

THIS SCREEN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE OF OUR STAFF
WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR— 1914-1918.

"These laid the world away; poured out the sweet red wine of youth;
gave up the years to be of work and joy and that unhoped serene, that
men call age; and those that would have been their sons, they gave their
immortality."

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Victoria Edwards
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Canadian Bank of Commerce Memorial Screen
War or Conflict Term
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Body Content

In 1931, a permanent memorial in the Canadian Bank of Commerce's new Head Office was dedicated to Canadian Bank of Commerce employees who died in the First World War. This memorial was carved in situ inside the banking hall and made from Hauteville and Belgian marble. Designed by Emmanuel Hahn, it features two angels with sheathed swords kneeling on either side of the altar of sacrifice. John Donnelly of New York carved this panel and the rest was carved by William Dawson of Montreal. The quote on the inscription is from a poem by Rupert Brooke.

The Canadian Bank of Commerce went to great lengths to commemorate its staff that served in the Great War including memorials commissioned for their branches and a two-volume book of staff profiles and accounts of their war experiences.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Sculpture
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9788
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-052
Type
Address
Needs Research
Location
east end Toronto café
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
0, 0
Inscription

1914-1918 / Our comrades / Who / Sixty-three in all / "Played the game" / Even unto death / their lives they risked /and gave very soul /of life to save /and by their own great valour /and the grace of God they won

Gordon Applegath Charles McHenry

J. Russell Aikins Roy F. McMurtry

E. Lambert Bach Sidney McWhinney

Roy Bailey George H. Morang

Beverley Ball William Munro

Quintin W. Bannister Bertram T. Nevitt

E.O. Bath G. Courtland Noxon

Fred J. Blakey Donald Osborne

Edward B. Booth Paul Pettit

H. Stewart Boulter John H. Pipon

Wilfred Britnell John A. Proctor

Norman A. Brown William Proudfoot

J.P. Cavers Gaynor Reid

Duncan Chisholm George Renfrew

Walter W. Conyers Roy R. Riggs

Melville Crawford Francis Rolph

Beverley Crowther John E. Ryerson

Lindsay Drummond Alex W. Scott

Douglas Q. Ellis J. Murray Skeaff

George Evans Dr. Harry R. Smith

Thomas Freebairn Langley W. Smith

Eric Clarence Gardner W. Burton Tait

Percival Gibson W. Gordon Tait

Carl Heebner Geoffrey B. Taylor

Fred J. Hore Jack Topp

Francis C. Howard E.C. VanEeghan

Fred Hutty N. Eden Walker

Ralph Jones Frank Waltho

Herbert N. Klotz Arthur C. Williams

Basil R. Lepper Lynn Wright

C. Gordon Likens William B. Yuille

Richard L. Lyall

 

 

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Victoria Edwards
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Aura Lee Club WWI plaque
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Province
Body Content

The Aura Lee Club was founded in 1887. The competitive athletics part of the club began about 1903. In 1925, the property was turned over to the University of Toronto for use by its preparatory school (UTS). Hockey, canoeing, other sports and social events evoke the lighter side of a Toronto club’s life, but this memorial shows the darker side—naming 63 comrades who went from the playing fields to the battlefields and didn’t come back.

Names on a bronze plaque with dates (1914-1918) indicate a tribute to those members of the Aura Lee Club who died in the Great War.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Plaque
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9700
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-051
Type
Address
711 Lake Shore Boulevard W
Location
Coronation Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6335144, -79.4070353
Inscription

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  • A living memorial, the groves of Coronation
    Park commemorate the service and sacrifice
    of Canada's military. The tree at the center of the
    circle behind you, known as King's Oak, is
    the park's symbolic heart. Surrounding the King's
    Oak is a ring of maple trees representing the
    former British Empire's dominions and colonies.
    Trees in other groves commemorate Canada's
    military units, principally of the First World War.
  • The park's plan reflects a move away from
    elaborately planted Victorian gardens to stands
    of trees that would mature into a structured
    landscape in the decades to come. Symbols
    of life, Coronation Park's trees embody the spirit
    of idealism that emerged following the horrors
    of the First World War.
  • Designed by members of the Toronto chapter of
    Men of the Trees and the Toronto Ex-Servicemen's
    Coronation Committee, the park opened on the
    day of King George VI's coronation, May 12, 1937.
    Threatened by development in the 1960s and
    1970s, the park has endured as an important
    commemorative landscape.
  • Un monument vivant, dédie à la guerre, les boisés
    du parc Coronation commémorent le service et
    le sacrifice des militaires canadiens. L'arbre au
    centre du cercle derriee vous, connu sous le nom
    de King's Oak (chêne du roi), représente le cœur
    symbolique du parc. Le chêne du roi est entouré
    par un anneau d'érables représentant les dominions
    et les colonies de l'ancien Empire britannique.
    Les arbres d'autres boisés commémorent les
    unités des forces canadiennes, principalement
    de la Première Guerre mondiale.
  • Le plan du parc traduit un départ des jardins
    victoriens richement plantés vers des peuplements
    d'arbres qui finiraient par créer un paysage
    structuré dans les décennies à venir. Symboles
    de vie, les arbres du Coronation Park incarnent
    l'esprit idéalisme qui a émergé à la suite des
    horreurs de la Première Guerre mondiale.
  • Conçu par des membres de la section de
    Toronto de Men of the Trees et du Comité
    du couronnement des anciens combattants de
    Toronto, le parc a ouvert ses portes le jour du
    couronnement du roi George VI, le 12 mai 1937.
    Menacé par le développement dans les annéees
    1960 et 1970, le parc a ??

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Groves of Coronation Park
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City of Toronto
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storyboard
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A living memorial, the groves of Coronation Park commemorate the service and sacrifice of Canada's military. The tree at the center of the circle, known as King's Oak, is the park's symbolic heart. Surrounding the King's Oak is a ring of maple trees representing the former British Empire's dominions and colonies. Trees in other groves commemorate Canada's military units, principally of the First World War.

The park's plan reflects a move away from elaborately planted Victorian gardens to stands of trees that would mature into a structured landscape in the decades to come. Symbols of life, Coronation Park's trees embody the spirit of idealism that emerged following the horrors of the First World War.

Designed by members of the Toronto chapter of Men of the Trees and the Toronto Ex-Servicemen's Coronation Committee, the park opened on the day of King George VI's coronation, May 12, 1937.

In 1939, granite stones were added to each tree to identify the military units.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Trees, stones
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9598
City/Municipality
Toronto (Scarborough)
Memorial Number
35090-050
Type
Address
941 Progress Avenue
Location
Centennial College - Various Locations
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.784886995272, -79.227621822118
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Victoria Edwards
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Canada 150 tree initiative Centennial College
Province
Body Content

Planting trees along the 170 km Highway of Heroes, Highway 401 from CFB Trenton and Keele Street

A tree planting at Centennial College in 2016

City
Toronto (Scarborough)
Country
Type Description
150 tree initiative
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9517
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-049
Type
Address
300 Lonsdale Road
Location
Grace Church on-the-Hill
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6891648, -79.4103719
Inscription

SANCTUS MATTHEUS   SANCTUS MARCUS   SANCTUS LUCAS   SANCTUS JOHANNES 

THESE FOUR WINDOWS ARE ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GODIN LOVING MEMORY OF EVAN EDWARD PRICE, DSO AND BAR, LIEUT. RCD. DIED OF WOUNDS. TORONTO, SEPT. 11, 1919.

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Victoria Edwards
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Lieutenant Evan Edward Price Window
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Victoria Edwards
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Window panels 3 and 4
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Victoria Edwards
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Window panels 1 and 2
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Body Content

This stained glass window consisting of four panels was erected at Grace Church on-the-Hill to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Lieutenant Evan Edward Price who was wounded at Moreuil Wood on 30 March 1918, invalided home and died on 11 September 1919. The windows were made by Robert McCausland Limited and installed in 1919 in the Ambulatory. Separately, the windows depict the four evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John presenting scrolls.

Evan was born on 11 October 1897, to Annie C. and Lewis A. Price in Mount Elgin, Ontario. He was a student at the Upper Canada College and a member of the Governor General’s Body Guard militia when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 11 February 1916. He went overseas with the Canadian Mounted Rifles and later became a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Armoured Regiment). In March of 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; in June he was awarded a Bar to add to the Cross for his courage. In February of 1918 he won the Distinguished Service Order, for his reconnaissance work.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Stained glass window
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9509
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-048
Type
Address
300 Lonsdale Road
Location
Grace Church on-the-Hill
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6891648, -79.4103719
Inscription

"To the glory of God in loving memory of Maurice I Machell, Lt KSLI"

"Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth"

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Victoria Edwards
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Second Lieutenant Maurice Machell Window
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Body Content

At Grace Church on-the-Hill, a stained glass window was dedicated in 1943 to the memory of Second Lieutenant Maurice Irving Machell who had died in the First World War. The five-light window was designed by Robert McCausland Limited and depicts Christ enthroned, surrounded by angels. A figure on the bottom right holds a stone and is dressed in a dalmatic, symbolizing St. Stephen, first martyr of the Church, who was stoned to death. The figure at the top of the window, on the left, holding a set of scales and dressed in armour. This is St. Michael the Archangel, and the scales allude to the Last Judgment.

Maurice Irving Machell was born 6 May 1891 to Dr. and Mrs. H.T. Machell in in Toronto, Ontario. Maurice was a student at the General Theological Seminary in New York when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 10 November 1914. Originally placed in the 19th Battalion, he was later discharged in order to become a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion. On 15 September 1916 he was killed in action while engaged in operations at the Somme.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Stained Glass Window
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9508
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-047
Type
Address
300 Lonsdale Road
Location
Grace Church on-the-Hill
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6891648, -79.4103719
Inscription

To the glory of God in loving memory of Lt Charles Hamilton Hobkirk killed in action at the Battle of Courcelette in 1916, age 19

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Victoria Edwards
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Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Hobkirk Window
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A stained glass two light window by R. McCausland was installed in 1919 in memory of a parishioner Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Hobkirk who died at the Battle of Courcelette in 1916 during the First World War. The window features Jesus on the cross. Standing near the cross are Jesus' mother Mary (the wife of Joseph), and his mother's sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Stained Glass Window
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9507
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-046
Type
Address
1810 Queen Street East
Location
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6679371, -79.3093833
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Victoria Edwards
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Corpus Christi WWII memorial window
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Corpus Christi WWII memorial window - detail God
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Corpus Christi WWII memorial window - detail angel and soldier
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Body Content

The WWII Memorial Stained Glass windows by Guido Nincheri, an Italian-Canadian master, depict an angel dressed as a roman soldier lifting a fallen soldier from a battle field cemetery to God in heaven.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Stained Glass Window
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9506
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35090-045
Type
Address
19 Trinity Square
Location
Church of the Holy Trinity
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.6545805, -79.3813256
Inscription

Blessed are the peacemakers They are the children of GOD

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of
Gavin Ince Langmuir Lieut. 15th Batt. C.E.F. who fell in action
at the Battle of Ypres April 1915 in his 23rd year.

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Joan of Arc
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St. Michael
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Church of the Holy Trinity
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Lieutenant Gavin Ince Langmuir Window
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On 5 November 1922 a stained-glass window was unveiled at Church of the Holy Trinity by Bishop of Toronto James Fielding Sweeny, dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Gavin Ince Langmuir, who was killed in the First World War. The upper panes of the window depict St. Michael coming to Joan of Arc with a laurel wreath of victory. The lower panes are dedicated to his parents and depict Jesus is depicted preaching to Langmuir's father. Above the window panels is the family crest of a cap and greyhound. The window was designed and constructed by N.T. Lyon Co.

Langmuir was born on 10 October 1892 in Toronto, Ontario to Archibald David and Margaret Langmuir. He worked as an appraiser and was a member of the 48th Highlanders militia; on 20 September 1914, he was commissioned to be a lieutenant in the 15th Battalion. On the first day of Second Ypres, 22 April 1915, he was reported missing, later presumed to have been killed in action.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Stained Glass Window
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9505