The Tottenham Cenotaph was unveiled in August 1920 by the municipality of Tottenham to honour the local men killed in the First World War. During the First World War, the 8th Platoon B Company of the 157th Battalion Simcoe County constructed in a big hall that had been turned into a barracks. It was part of the long-gone Morrow Hotel which stood where the Rogers Block is now (building on the southwest corner of the “Four Corners”, the intersection of Mill Street, running east-west, and Queen Street, north-south, in the middle of Tottenham). Of the forty-one men of the 8th Platoon that served in the First World War, twenty-four did not return.
It was rededicated after the Second World War, and again at the end of the Korean War.
