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The Sault College Native Education Staff and Students started the Tommy Prince - World War II & Korean Native War Veteran Scholarship in 1997.

Sergeant Tommy Prince was a prominent Anishinaabe activist who served in the Second World War and Korean War. His story is one of the most widely known examples of the wartime contributions of Indigenous soldiers in the mid-20^th century and the poor treatment they received upon their return to civilian life in Canada. His accomplishments attracted national media attention during his lifetime and earned him a great many posthumous tributes.

Prince was born in October 1915 in St. Peter's Reserve, Manitoba. He was the great-grandson of respected Ojibwa Chief Peguis, and one of eleven children born to Elizabeth and Henry Prince. In 1920, they moved to Brokenhead Ojibway Nation in Scanterbury, Manitoba. At age five, Prince was forced to leave his community and attend Elkhorn Residential School, where he joined the Cadet Corps. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from the residential school before he joined the military.

In 1940, he volunteered to fight for Canada in the Second World War. He rose from sapper to lance corporal with the Royal Canadian Engineers before volunteering for the 1^st Canadian Parachute Battalion in 1942. Soon after, he was assigned to the elite 1^st Canadian Special Service Battalion, which was attached to the First Special Service Force (Devil’s Brigade). He reached the rank of sergeant by war’s end, and was one of three Canadians to receive both the Silver Star (United States) and the Military Medal. King George VI presented him with both honours during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 1945, shortly before Prince’s discharge from the army. 

He wanted to prove his people were as good as any white man and restore their good name. One way to achieve this was to acquire as many medals as possible and he did so without putting his men at risk. Before any patrols he would ensure they were camouflaged and everything was secured. Often he would patrol alone because there would be less noise. Prince was a natural warrior and he excelled as the military developed the skills he learned on the reserve while living off the land. He loved the Devil's Brigade and was always praising his men, "If it wasn't for my men, I wouldn't be who I am today." He was a caring man who loved to joke around and make people laugh.

He was a prominent leader in the Indigenous rights movement of the 1940s. After the war, he served as spokesperson and vice-president of the Manitoba Indian Association, and appeared on its behalf before a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons, tasked with studying the Indian Act. During his testimony in 1947, he advocated for the abolition of the Indian Act and respect for existing treaties, and presented submissions from Indigenous in Manitoba, which called for improved schools, better living conditions, and expanded hunting, trapping, and fishing rights.

In 1950, Prince re-enlisted in the Korean War. He contributed to the defence of Hill 677 in the Battle of Kapyong in 1951, for which the United States awarded the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry the Distinguished Unit Citation—the only time a Canadian unit has received this honour. Military service took a heavy toll on his health and, following his honourable discharge from the army, he faced a difficult return to civilian life in Manitoba. Prince endured discrimination, illness, and poverty in the years that followed and died in 1977. He fought many demons after residential school and the horrors of combat, but he never lost his humility, self-worth, sense of humour and pride of being Anishinaabe. 

This plaque is dedicated to Sergeant William Merrifield V.C. M.M.

Essar Centre is a state-of-the-art, downtown, 4,928 seat sports and entertainment centre. The Essar Centre was constructed next door to the former Memorial Gardens and incorporated it’s most distinctive feature, the Memorial Tower, into its plans.

The block that surrounds the centre is known as Memorial Square and features the Memorial Tower. EPOH Inc. and PBK Architects designed the Essar Centre as a tribute to the dead of the First and Second World Wars.

This memorial is dedicated to the men of Abitibi Power and Paper Company Limited and subsidiary Companies who gave their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945.

This memorial was erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. The plaque is dedicated to Colonel John Prince, who was commanding officer of the Essex Militia. 

Central United Church was sold in November 2020 and its Honour Roll was moved to Dunlop United Church in December.

This style of an Honour Roll was designed by A.J. Casson when he worked at Sampson-Matthews, a prominent midtown Toronto lithography and commercial art company.

This Honour Roll, which includes photographs of 29 church members who served in the Second World War, was formerly located in Parker Street United Church at 152 Parker Street. It closed on June 30, 2009, and the Parker Street United Church Second World War Honour Roll was moved to Dunlop United Church.

George Stirrett, born in Forest and raised in Petrolia, enlisted in the First World War early 1915 in nearby London, Ontario, where he served with the 7th Mounted Rifles under Billy Bishop, one of Canada's most famous aviators. Stirrett attempted to join the Royal Flying Corps with Bishop, but was turned down and remained in the cavalry unit that sailed for England in June 1915, and then to France later that fall.

He led 60 stretcher bearers into enemy fire at the Battle of the Somme to retrieve injured soldiers, but only 16 returned to the Allied trenches. The rest were killed or were wounded. Stirrett was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal after he went out again alone when he heard someone call for help from the battlefield. He eventually pulled eight men back to safety. He reached the rank of major and won the Military Cross for leading near-suicidal forays in search of German machine gun nests in the last few weeks of the war. The official citation notes he carried out mounted patrols to gather information on enemy positions with great dash and courage.

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 several of the oak trees he planted are still standing.

The Vimy Oaks Legacy Corporation repatriated Canadian Vimy Oaks back to Vimy Ridge and saplings were planted as part of the centennial commemorations in 2017 and 2018. Vimy Oaks saplings were offered for sale across the country as a memorial to the soldiers of the First World War.

A set of three memorial windows designed by Peter Haworth, a Toronto stained glass artist, were dedicated in St. Paul's United Church (formerly St. Paul's Presbyterian Church)  on Sunday, October 10, 1948. The congregation joined the United Church in 1925 and became St. Paul's United Church. The windows were destroyed in the fire that razed the church on Sunday, August 11, 1963.

The right window depicts the Angel of Hope who accompanied the ascended Christ to Heaven and the doves of peace. It was donated in memory of Ross Stevens. The whereabouts of this bronze plaque, and whether or not it survived the fire, is not known.

The center window was donated by the congregation in memory of the nine men from the church who died while serving in the Second World War. The left window was donated in memory of Flying Officer Wallace “Wally” Lang.