This stained glass window, The Royal Canadian Navy Centennial Memorial Window 2010, at St. Paul’s Anglican Church was unveiled in 2010 for the Official Naval Centennial Project, to whom it is dedicated.
In May 2007, Rear-Admiral Bill Hughes attended the dedication ceremony in Kingston Ontario of a memorial window to the Princess of Wales Own Regiment. The significance of the memorial window and the dedication ceremony struck a chord with him and he noted that the window resembled the configuration and size of those in his own St. Paul’s Church in Esquimalt. In describing it to his son, Commander Roderick Hughes RCN, the idea of a memorial for the (then) upcoming Royal Canadian Naval Centennial was conceived.
Admiral Hughes proposed the project to the Rector of the Church. A committee was formed with representatives from the Church and the naval side. The committee included Rear-Admiral Ken Summers, Ms. Debbie Towell, Major the Reverend Canon Andrew Gates, Ron Mason, Doug Henderson, Darwin Robinson and Commander Michael Morres. Rear-Admiral Hughes was appointed as the committee Chair. Approval was granted by NDHQ to include the project as an Official Naval Centennial Project. Mercer and Schaefer Glass Studios was selected to undertake the work.
