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William Moncrieff Ferguson served with the 14th and 35th Battalions during WWI, then returned to Toronto in 1919. In 1924 both Ferguson and Pomphrey submitted an entry in the competition for the War Memorial Cenotaph in Toronto. From the fifty designs submitted, their scheme was awarded First Premium, accompanied by a generous fee and award of $2,500 for architectural services. A watercolour perspective of their design appeared in the R.A.I.C. Journal, ii, Jan.-Feb. 1925, 4. The WW I War Memorial Cenotaph was erected on Queen Street West at Bay Street, 1925-26. This is the main memorial in Toronto for Remembrance Day ceremonies.

In 1894, at age nineteen and having only minimal training as a sculptor, Walter S. Allward won a competition to design a bronze statue of Peace for the Northwest Rebellion Monument in Toronto. The monument had been proposed by a group of Toronto women who began raising funds in the early 1890s. In 1894, the committee hired Toronto based D. McIntosh & Sons to provide a pedestal and to supervise Allward’s progress. The pedestal, designed by McIntosh employee James Wilson Gray, is made of grey granite, twenty feet high, and ornamented with the insignia of the various regiments that took part in the Northwest Resistance. 

Allward’s lack of experience meant that he worked slowly, which resulted in complaints from his employer, who had provided money in advance for his studio and tools. Confident in his artistic abilities, Allward threatened to destroy the sculpture if the company continued to exert pressure. The McIntosh representative relented, but when Allward arrived at the site the next morning a guard was stationed beside the figure, an arrangement that continued until he completed the sculpture.

Allward worked on the sculpture throughout 1895 in his studio at the Imperial Chambers Building on Adelaide Street in Toronto, completing a clay model in time for a public showing in January 1896. The bronze casting of the final model was done at the foundry of Bureau Brothers in Philadelphia.

Designed according to the then popular Beaux-Arts style, the monument has a single figure on a pedestal within a pyramidal composition. The statue portrays Peace as an idealized female figure in a static pose, with a full-length robe falling loosely from her shoulders. Her right hand holds an olive branch and her left hand is raised in a gesture commanding silence. The sword at her side represents the power of Canada at rest. The sculpture, Allward’s earliest professional commission, was his first to focus on peace, a theme he would return to throughout his career.

The unveiling on June 27, 1896, featured a military parade and speeches by officials from various levels of government, including the Honourable Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Mayor Robert John Fleming. The monument honours soldiers and volunteers who died during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, when the Canadian government sent troops to suppress an uprising led by the Métis leader Louis Riel. Allward attended the unveiling and when the crowd called out for him to speak, he responded with a modesty that became one of his hallmarks: “I thank you for your appreciation of my work. It is not what it might have been, but it was the best I could do. Probably I will do better next time.”

A plaque, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the rebellion, was added in 1935.

The Northwest Rebellion Monument deals with a battle that took place at the height of the government’s attempts to control Indigenous communities and does not acknowledge the Indigenous lives lost or the trial and subsequent death of Riel. The monument has become re-appropriated and given different meaning by Métis and Indigenous groups. It has served as a meeting place and the anniversary of Riel’s death has been commemorated here with Indigenous ceremonies and events.

The Cross of Sacrifice was unveiled on October 18, 1931, by the Right Honorable Sir William Mulock, KCMG, Chief Justice of Ontario and Honorary President of the Queen's Own Memorial Association. It was dedicated by Lieutenant-Colonel the Reverend Canon Cody, Senior Chaplain of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.

Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1918, the Cross of Sacrifice is one of two iconic features designed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission architects. Crosses of Sacrifice are found around the world in Commission cemeteries and in public cemeteries where there is a concentration of War Dead. The Cross of Sacrifice is an imposing bronze medieval longsword, blade down, on a stark white cross. It is one of the most enduring symbols of the bravery and sacrifice made by the men and women of the Commonwealth during the World Wars. 

On June 22, 1924, a Memorial Cross was unveiled at the west side of St. James Cathedral to commemorate the memory of the 46 members of the congregation who had fallen in the First World War. One hundred members of the 10^th Regiment Royal Grenadiers attended the unveiling ceremony, which was conducted by Colonel A.H. Borden. The memorial was unveiled by H.C. Scholfield and dedicated by Right Reverend Bishop William Day Reeve.

Designed by architects Sproatt & Rolph, it is imitative of the Eleanor Cross which King Edward I dedicated to his wife Eleanor of Castile in the 13^th century. Made from Indiana limestone, the Cross is Gothic in style, consisting of four piers that are square in plan and within the arches is a fan-vaulted ceiling carried out with intricate and delicately detailed tracery. The spire rises above this, embellished with flying buttresses, pinnacles and an open terrace design.

In 1924, Sproatt & Rolph also designed La Malbaie Memorial Cross  Simcoe Carillon Tower and Soldiers' Tower. 

In 1891, a group of men gathered in Toronto intent on forming the city's first Highland regiment. The regiment was designated by the Militia Department with the number "48" and the word "Highlanders" and shortly thereafter Lieutenant-Colonel John Irvine Davidson assumed command of the newly constituted 48th Highlanders of Canada.

The Regiment was gazetted on October 16, 1891, and began to drill at Upper Canada College. It first marched out on the 21 April, 1892, to be greeted by crowds of cheering Torontonians. On the Queen's Birthday that year, the Regiment was presented with its first set of colours by His Excellency Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada.

With Captain John Irvine Davidson as the first commanding officer, the 48th Highlanders of Canada first saw active service in the South African War when 17 Highlanders accompanied the First Canadian contingent overseas. Following the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson in April of 1910, the regiment purchased a large burial lot in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Late in the afternoon of Thanksgiving Monday, October 28, 1912, the train bringing 700 troops back to the city from a sham battle that had been held that day near Milton, Ontario, crashed into the Detroit Flyer, a passenger train bound for that American city. The impact at Streetsville Junction was minimal, but one of the cars in which many of the 48th Highlanders were travelling was very old and completely demolished. Two highlanders were killed and 30 were injured. In tribute to the deceased soldiers, Privates Mac Murdock and John Bannatyne, a special monument was prepared for the regiment’s lot. Later, inscriptions were added for the regiment’s battle honours, South African War and the First and Second World Wars.

This monument was moved in 1969 to a more prominent location on the main road into the cemetery, a few yards east of Mount Pleasant Road.

A German trench mortar is displayed in front of the Chapleau Cenotaph and is dedicated to those who fell in the Great War.

Individual plaques of all who died serving in Afghanistan

The Ontario Native Education Counselling Association, along with strong community support, led the effort to commemorate Charlie Byce. The bronze and granite monument was created by Tyler Fauvelle, a Sudbury-based sculptor and unveiled September 17, 2016.

Sergeant Charlie Byce in his uniform, with his ribbon bars and battle-aged eyes, and we realize that the artwork is telling the story of a hero. There's another story to see, and it's the story of Charlie's Moose Cree heritage. Antlers encircle him - but only in a broken circle, symbolizing what racism and the residential school system did to separate him from his culture. The eagle feather held close to his heart is a tribute to valour, and a reminder that Charles Henry Byce, the son of a proud Cree woman and a First World War hero, never forgot who he was.

Charles Henry Byce was born in Chapleau, Ontario. His mother was Cree, from Moose Factory and his father was a decorated hero of the First World War. Charlie's rebellious spirit was inflamed by the oppression he experienced in the residential school system. He was a teenager when he left Chapleau, eventually joining the army at Port Arthur (Thunder Bay). 

Sergeant Byce served with the Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) - now the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment. He was awarded the British Military Medal for leadership and bravery on the night of January 20, 1945, in Holland. Just a few weeks later, he earned the Distinguished Conduct Medal for extreme bravery in the Hochwald Forest sector, Germany.

"The magnificent courage and fighting spirit displayed by this NCO [non-commissioned officer] when faced with almost insuperable odds are beyond all praise. His gallant stand, without adequate weapons and with a bare handful of men against hopeless odds will remain, for all time, an outstanding example to all ranks of the regiment.”
- from the Distinguished Conduct Medal Citation

The Distinguished Conduct Medal is second only to the Victoria Cross, making Charles Henry Byce one of the most highly-decorated Indigenous soldier in the Canadian Army, Second World War. Very few Canadians have received both a Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal (or its equivalent) - remarkably, Henry Byce, Charlie's father, was one of them.

On June 25, 1978, the cenotaph was relocated from between the old Town Hall and St. John's Anglican Church on Pine Street to its new location beside the Royal Canadian Legion Hall. The unveiling ceremony was conducted by Henry Therriault, Second World War Veteran and president of Branch 5 (Ontario) of the Royal Canadian Legion. The prayer of dedication was given by Rev. William Ivey, rector of St. John's Anglican Church following the unveiling.

The unveiling of memorial walls at the Remembrance Day service on November 11, 1978, completed the move of the cenotaph to its new location beside the Royal Canadian Legion Hall. The unveiling of the First World War wall was done by Frank Cranston, Chapleau's last surviving Veteran of the First World War, and air cadet Bonnie Goheen. The unveiling of the Second World War wall was done by Muriel (Hunt) Morris and Eric Groulx.

ERECTED IN 2016 BY TOWN OF MOONBEAM, ONTARIO