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Arthur Norman Martin designed the Second World War Memorial on the grand staircase leading from the Lobby of Old City Hall in Sept. 1947. The stained-glass window designed by Robert McCausland is located on the staircase, facing the entranceway. The window features the city’s coat-of-arms, the panels below it illustrating the union of commerce and industry.

The Ontario sculptor Frances Loring was commissioned to produce a Great War memorial for the Law Society of Upper Canada, in Toronto. Loring began by working on a clay model, which the committee then reviewed and, after suggesting a few modifications, approved before she made a full?sized plaster cast that would be used by the eventual marble carvers to create an exact copy with the help of calipers and precise measurements. The cast was shipped to Italy, and Loring herself went to Carrara after it to select the marble to be used for the sculpture, and to supervise its carving. The memorial lists 115 lawyers and law students who died in the war.

The Lieutenant Dermont Alan Harris Plaque was unveiled on May 3, 1920. Maple leaves are prominently etched in the relief work, while the inscription 'Faithful Unto Death' affirms Harris as a soldier of Christ. Lieutenant Harris was killed in action on August 9, 1918, while serving with the 4th Battalion.

The Order Street Public School war memorial is a bronze plaque 1939-45 in honoured memory of the boys of Orde Street Public School.

The church has a rich history of Toronto soldier's and veterans. There are plaques honouring parishioner soldiers who were killed in action during the Great War.

The colours (flags) were retired at the Canadian Forces Appreciation Night in February 2018. The colours will be stored in a display case at gate 6 visible from the interior or exterior of Maple Leaf Gardens. The Colours honour the Maple Leafs military history. Wing Commander William George Baker, World War I ace, served as President of the Maple Leaf Club.

In 1931, a permanent memorial in the Canadian Bank of Commerce's new Head Office was dedicated to Canadian Bank of Commerce employees who died in the First World War. This memorial was carved in situ inside the banking hall and made from Hauteville and Belgian marble. Designed by Emmanuel Hahn, it features two angels with sheathed swords kneeling on either side of the altar of sacrifice. John Donnelly of New York carved this panel and the rest was carved by William Dawson of Montreal. The quote on the inscription is from a poem by Rupert Brooke.

The Canadian Bank of Commerce went to great lengths to commemorate its staff that served in the Great War including memorials commissioned for their branches and a two-volume book of staff profiles and accounts of their war experiences.

Royal Canadian Yacht Club war memorial, planted with poppies.

Charles John Gibson, Toronto-based architect, designed the War Memorial at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto Island, in 1926.

The Aura Lee Club was founded in 1887. The competitive athletics part of the club began about 1903. In 1925, the property was turned over to the University of Toronto for use by its preparatory school (UTS). Hockey, canoeing, other sports and social events evoke the lighter side of a Toronto club’s life, but this memorial shows the darker side—naming 63 comrades who went from the playing fields to the battlefields and didn’t come back.

Names on a bronze plaque with dates (1914-1918) indicate a tribute to those members of the Aura Lee Club who died in the Great War.