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After the Battle of Vimy Ridge was won on April 12, 1917, Lieutenant Leslie Miller, a soldier from Ontario, gathered up a handful of acorns as a souvenir to the momentous victory. On returning to Canada, he transplanted the acorns on his land, calling his property the Vimy Oaks Farm. Today nine of the oak trees he planted are still standing on what is now the current site of Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, Toronto, Ontario.

Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church partners with Vimy Oak Legacy, allowing them to access the site and harvest the acorns. In 2017, over 1,500 descendant trees grew at a nursery near Hamilton, with several hundred repatriated to Vimy Ridge, France in 2018. Vimy Oak Legacy has also invited planting of the young saplings in different commemorative sites all over Canada.

Leslie Miller was born October 5, 1889 on the family farm in Scarborough, Ontario. Following his studies at the University of Toronto he moved to Saskatchewan to teach. In October 1914, he enlisted as a private in the 24th Border Horse of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He subsequently joined the Signal Corps and was assigned to the 5th Battalion.

He rose through the ranks and received a field commission as 1st Lieutenant in 1918. In the Signal Corps, he mastered the means of communication (semaphore, Morse code, even pigeons) and trained other soldiers in these same skills. He deployed wireless technology and sent, received and decoded messages. His fluency in French and German were particularly valuable for which he received commendations.

Leslie Miller’s war diary is largely devoted to the friendships he cultivated with local French families, his fellow soldiers, his interaction with German prisoners and the nature he discovered around him. Upon returning to Canada, his father gave him 24 acres of the family farm where his Vimy Oaks were growing. He replanted the oaks as part of his woodlot and named his land “The Vimy Oaks”. Leslie Miller died on December 29, 1979, at the age of 90 years.

The Pilot Officer Eric Gordon More Window was created by artist Peter Haworth. The window depicts airmen, St. Michael, and the Royal Canadian Air Force Crest.

The WWII Memorial Window includes Fragments collected by DR. R.F. Sneyd from churches damaged during the 2nd World War. Ernst Taylor, the artist 1950, has placed most of the historic fragments around the edges of the window to be a realistic part of the pictures in these windows. He has pained six large and bright sunflowers here to give brightness and color and depth, but also to suggest that they are looking up toward the light. The butterflies suggest the matter of air and flight created by these insects. The seven doves suggest the motion of flight and, of course, symbolize peace. The uniformed figures represent “the flight to Glory” of those who have died sacrificially.

Your vantage as you look through this window is presumed to be in a church where the windows have been destroyed. In the five lower section on each side you will observe fragments of glass which come to a point in a Gothic frame. Through the left panel you observe Chichester Cathedral in southern England near which the Canadian Army was stationed between 1939 and 1945. Through the right window there is the outline of the Martinikirk in Groningan Holland where I conducted a Thanksgiving Service for 5th Canadian Armoured Division the Sunday following VE Day. The top two sections of these windows have figure wearing uniforms and surmounting them is the figure of Christ. In the mullion at the top there is a beautiful swirl of glass with a modernistic touch and this centres on a circle representing the source of light.

The children in the bottom two sections are picking up fragments from the floor of the church and are looking up in wonder, trying to realize what it is all about. They represent those who are looking for an explanation and toward the light. At the bottom of the window we have life in the children and then, as we progress upward, destruction, then peace in the doves, triumph in the warriors, and the victorious figure of Christ surmounting the whole. From the material and finite things in the fragments of glass we progress toward the infinite and spiritual. The theme is that all movement is upward to The Great Source of Light.

On September 9, 1923, a window on the west transept of Metropolitan Church was dedicated by Reverend Dr. G.H. Williams to the 36 members of the church who died in the First World War. It was unveiled by Lieutenant-Colonel A.H. Borden, DSO.

The window depicts David and the Mighty Men - King David, angels, soldiers, Dominion Coat of Arms and the Royal Coat of Arms. It was constructed by R. McCausland.

Metropolitan Methodist Church, known as the "Cathedral of Methodism" in Toronto, traces its roots to 1818. In 1925, it entered the United Church of Canada as Metropolitan United Church. 

The First World War memorial baptistery at St. Thomas's is graced with Great War memorial windows. The windows were created in 1922 by Archibald John Davies (b. 1877) of the Bromsgrove Guild, England to remember the deaths suffered by the parish's sons (and one daughter) in 1914-18. They consist of five twin-light windows depicting knights, saints, angels, a wounded soldier, and the Crucifixion.

On 24 October 1920, a stained glass window consisting of three sections was unveiled in the west transept of the Church of the Redeemer. A piece of glass used for this memorial window came from a shattered window of the Arras Cathedral, France, which had been shelled during the First World War. The window commemorates the lives of 52 parishioners who were killed in the war and was designed by N.T. Lyon Co, Toronto.

At the top left section is a half-length figure of an angel with a shield with the motif of a sword and a banderole bearing the word "FORTITUDE". Below is a depiction of Christ carrying the Cross of Calvary, surrounded by Roman soldiers. The bottom left section is the Crucifixion and a soldier with a rifle falling at the foot of the cross.

In the top center section, an angel is holding a shield with the figure of a lamb. Below is a banderole with the inscription "SACRIFICE" and below are two shields with the instruments of the Passion: a crown of thorns and crossed scourges. In the center is the depiction of the empty cross after the Crucifixion. The bottom center is a wounded solider with bandaged head, trailing a rifle in his left hand and triumphantly holding forward the Red Ensign Canadian flag in his right hand.

At the top right section is a half-length figure of an angel holding a white shield bearing a red cross, while directly underneath is a banderole with the inscription "MERCY". Below is a depiction of the fainting virgin, supported by attendant figures and an inscription band with the words "By thy death and burial". At the bottom right is a Red Cross worker supporting a wounded soldier and offering him a drink from a canteen. To the right in the background is the figure of Christ.

This commemorative plaque to those who paid the supreme sacrifice during the First and Second World Wars is in the lobby of the The Bay Store, on the ground floor, at southeast corner of the building. It was originally placed there during the days when the building was owned by the Robert Simpson Company to honour members of the Toronto Simpsons staff who perished in the conflicts. When The Bay purchased the premises, they maintained the memorial. In 1905, Robert Simpson opened the R. W. Simpson warehouse to house the company’s first mail-order business at 160 Front Street, where a TD branch stands today. In 2025, HBC donated the Honour Roll to TD for display at the former Simpsons warehouse location to maintain public access to this important Toronto memorial.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Great War Tablet in North Toronto Station on Yonge Street was dedicated on April 28, 1922. The tablet was later moved to Union Station.  

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.

This memorial is dedicated to members of the congregation of Westminster United Church who served in the First and Second World Wars. It consists of two paper certificates in a single frame.

This memorial is dedicated to members of the congregation of Aikens United Church who served in the First and Second World Wars. It was moved to Westminster United Church in 1969 when several small rural churches were amalgamated.