Ontario

Province Code
ON
City/Municipality
Toronto
Memorial Number
35057-013
Type
Address
160 William Street
Location
St. Jude's Anglican Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4437993, -79.6676715
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Second World War inscription
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First World War inscription
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St. Jude's Church First and Second World Wars Plaque
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War or Conflict Term
Province
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One hundred and ninety-eight members of St. Jude's Anglican Church served in the First World War and the 18 that did not return are memorialized on this tablet. The church's Rector was wounded in Belgium, but not seriously, and returned to his duties after the armistice.

Three hundred and forty-one parishioners served in the Second World War and the 32  that died during their service are memorialized on this tablet.

City
Toronto
Country
Type Description
Plaque
Photo Credit
St. Jude's Anglican Church
Memorial CF Legacy ID
11542
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-012
Type
Address
160 William Street
Location
St. Jude's Anglican Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4437993, -79.6676715
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St. Jude's Church Second World War Roll of Honour
War or Conflict Term
Province
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This Roll of Honour was dedicated to the 341 members of St. Jude's Anglican Church that served in the Second World War. Thirty two of them died during their service and are memorialized on a tablet in the church.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Honour Roll
Photo Credit
St. Jude's Anglican Church
Memorial CF Legacy ID
11539
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-011
Type
Address
2431 Dundas Street West
Location
Palermo Schoolhouse
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4386457, -79.7735887
Inscription

FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
Palermo Community
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH
CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES
1339 WORLD WAR II 1945

  • Robert Anderson
  • Victor Alton
  • Charles Bennett
  • Fred Binns
  • Helen Bishop
  • Harold Bishop
  • John Bishop
  • Lorne Black
  • John Breckon
  • Gerald Buffet
  • Robert Burden
  • Herbert Burton
  • John Cameron
  • Colin Campbell
  • David Clements
  • Roy Core
  • Ray Cripps
  • Howard Cullingham
  • Willis Cullingham
  • Gerald Cossitt
  • James Cossitt
  • David Davies
  • Fred Edwards
  • John Fairbrother
  • James Fairbrother
  • Maurice Flint
  • Bruce Fox
  • William Gilbert
  • Jack Hickey
  • Marjory Howard
  • James Howard
  • Gregg Howoard
  • Wiliam Inglehart
  • John Inglehart
  • Wilfred Inglehart
  • Haorld Jamieson
  • Joseph Jonston
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  • Cecil Joubert
  • Thomas Katan
  • George King
  • Wesley Lambert
  • Arthur Lawrence
  • Lee Ledson
  • John Ledson
  • Harold Ledson
  • Robert Ledson
  • Elogn Little
  • Gerald Little
  • William Little
  • George Little
  • Elmer Lilttle
  • Ross Little
  • Edward McLaren
  • Catharine McLean
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  • Vera Meares
  • James Maw
  • Charles Millard
  • Reginald Neclands
  • Robert Nell
  • Cam Ried
  • Charles Rivaz
  • Murray Rogers
  • Herbert Shaw
  • Gwendolyn Smith
  • Edgar Speers
  • William Soper
  • Albert Tarrell
  • Clayton Veitenheimer
  • Bruce Wallace
  • Harry Wilson
  • Albert Wiltshire
  • Donald Wood
  • Charles Young
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Second World War Honour Roll
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Province
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This Honour Roll originally hung in the Palermo Community Hall on Old Bronte Road. When the hall was torn down for road expansion, it was moved to the Trafalgar Town Hall on the southeast corner of Dundas and Trafalgar Streets. Sometime in 2000, when the hall was demolished, the Honour Roll was moved to the Oakville Town Hall and the town gave it to the Trafalgar Township Historical Society in December 2021.

It now hangs in the stairwell of the old Palermo one room Schoolhouse under the care of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society. The Honour Roll lists the volunteers of the Palermo community who served in the Second World War. It is illuminated and beautifully decorated with the symbols of Canada.

At the bottom, slightly right of the center are the initials AJC. A.J. Casson, the youngest member of a Canadian group of artists known as the Group of Seven, was the designer of the Honour Roll format, but the original calligraphy of the names in this example is not likely the work of A.J. Casson.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Honour Roll
Photo Credit
Trafalgar Township Historical Society
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10901
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-010
Type
Address
10 Walker Street
Location
Tannery Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.44, -79.6675
Inscription

History
The Battle of the Atlantic (September 1939 – May 1945) 
The Second World War began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Britain, France, and Canada were quick to declare war, but the enemy was strong and well equipped. By the fall of 1941 things looked very dark for the Allies; Germany had defeated France and was now attacking Britain. Canada and America sent vital supplies to Britain, which could only be transported by sea – something that Germany was determined to stop by using U-boats (submarines). 

The “Battle of the Atlantic” was the fight that pitted supply convoys against the German Navy. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) played a vital role in this battle and relied heavily on a new kind of warship: the Flower-Class Corvette. Small, lightly armed and fast, corvettes were excellent submarine hunters and perfect for escorting convoys. One of the most famous corvettes of the Second World War was named after the Town of Oakville.

HMCS Oakville Christening Ceremony (November 5, 1941) 
HMCS (K178) Oakville was built in Port Arthur, Ontario, and launched on June 21, 1941. On November 5, 12 local school children, representing each school in the district, were chosen to travel to Toronto to board the ship for its journey to the Town of Oakville. Joining them were the Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, Minister of National Defence for Naval Affairs, and Rear-Admiral Percy W. Nelles, Chief of Naval Staff. At 2 p.m. the ship arrived and dropped anchor offshore near this spot. Thousands of spectators in Lakeside Park cheered for the ship and crew while the mayor, Dr. Franklin Murray Deans, welcomed the commanding officer and dignitaries. 

Battle with U94 (August 28, 1942)
HMCS Oakville was escorting convoy TAW-15 (Trinidad, Aruba, Battle with U94 (August 28, 1942) Key West) in the Caribbean when she attacked, captured, and sunk U-boat U94. In the early morning of August 28, 1942, a plane that was escorting the convoy spotted a surfaced U-boat. It immediately dived, dropping depth charges that alerted HMCS Oakville to the danger. U94 was trying to submerge and escape, but not before Oakville launched five depth charges. The force of the 300-pound explosives damaged U94 enough that the submarine could not fully submerge.

A two-man boarding party from HMCS Oakville, made up of Sub-Lieutenant Harold Lawrence and Stoker Petty Officer Arthur Powell, leapt aboard U94. Armed only with pistols they captured the U-boat, killing two of its crew and taking the rest prisoner. Lawrence bravely entered the sinking submarine to look for codes, but was forced to abandon his efforts, narrowly escaping as the submarine sunk beneath the waves. 

After U94 
The crew of HMCS Oakville was recognized for its bravery with four medals and six citations. After the battle the ship went to Galveston, Texas to be refitted. Although she had a few more encounters with the enemy, she did not sink another U-boat. At the end of the war HMCS Oakville was sold to the Venezuelan Navy, and was renamed Patria. In 1959 she was decommissioned for the last time. Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander dedicated a stone cairn here in Tannery Park to honour the officers and crew of HMCS Oakville in 1989.

Did You Know?
HMCS stands for “His/Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship.”

The christening ceremony was one of largest public spectacles in the Town of Oakville’s history and one of the largest christening ceremonies of a Canadian warship during the Second World War.

HMCS Oakville is one of just over 30 Canadian warships to have sunk a U-boat in the Second World War.

Information courtesy of Sean E. Livingston, author of “Oakville’s Flower: The History of HMCS Oakville”

Learn more about the history of Oakville Harbour at oakvillehistory.org.

TOWN OF OAKVILLE

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Photo Credit
Town of Oakville/Ville d'Oakville
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plaque
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Province
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On May 14, 2016, the Town of Oakville added the HMCS Oakville Plaque in Tannery Park.

The HMCS Oakville Memorial is also located in the park.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10479
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-008
Type
Address
2457 Lakeshore Road West
Location
Bronte Gore Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.3941336, -79.712326
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Photo Credit
http://images.oakville.halinet.on.ca/3094851/data
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http://images.oakville.halinet.on.ca/3094851/data
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Province
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The Bronte Cenotaph is at Bronte Gore Park

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Shaft (or Stone Shaft)
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9969
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-007
Type
Address
300 River Oaks Boulevard East
Location
Inside St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4765082, -79.7061835
Image
Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
Caption
Plaque
War or Conflict Term
Province
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Body Content

This memorial recalls a historic injustice Canadians should pause to remember, as we recall the First World War and the valour of all those Canadian men, and some women, who served. It is a tribute to mark the memory of the thousands of "enemy aliens" who had their civil rights stripped, and were subsequently imprisoned during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, following the implementation of the War Measures Act. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act - adopted on August 22, 1914 during the First World War. It was used to imprison Ukrainian-Canadians, and other ethnic groups, including German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Armenian communities, into one of Canada's 24 internment camps.

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and former chair of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), had taken it upon himself to lead the way and organize the memorial. In the CTO ("One Hundred") project, 100 aluminum plaques were simultaneously unveiled at 100 different locations across the country at 11:00am local time on August 22, 2014. The first plaque was unveiled in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by a wave of plaque unveilings moved west, from province to province, culminating in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The plaques, which cost $1,000 to make, were funded by the generosity of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Interment Recognition Fund.

Each plaque features a photo of internment prisoners confined behind a wire fence at the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in Banff, Alberta. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of Castle Mountain, was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian, Austrian, Hungarian, and German descent.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Plaque, aluminum
Memorial CF Legacy ID
8808
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-006
Type
Address
3001 Hospital Gate
Location
Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4508707, -79.7647619
Inscription

[centre/centre]

Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital

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Photo Credit
Victoria Edwards
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Province
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Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) offers a comprehensive range of primary and secondary care services, in addition to some tertiary services to the residents of Oakville. Some major programs they offer include: specializations in maternal/child care, intensive care, emergency and ambulatory care, medicine, mental health, surgery, rehabilitation, and geriatrics.

This hospital was built in 1937, as a small, four-bed care facility, on the corner of 8th Line and MacDonald in Oakville. It was built by the Ontario Provincial Government, and is dedicated to the Veterans of the First and Second World Wars from the Oakville area and district. A new hospital is being built to accommodate the needs of a growing and aging community.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Building; hospital
Memorial CF Legacy ID
9034
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-005
Type
Address
120 Oak Park Boulevard
Location
Memorial Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4815766, -79.7206703
Inscription

[front/devant]
TRAFALGAR
MEMORIAL

Plaque/Plaque

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
TOWNSHP OF TRAFALGAR

IN MEMORY OF THOSE
OF TRAFALGAR TOWNSHIP
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
WHILE SERVING
THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
IN THE TWO WORLD WARS

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Photo Credit
J. Olbina
Caption
front view
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Front view
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Caption
Plaque
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This is the "Trafalgar Memorial". This memorial was erected by the Town of Oakville and unveiled on November 10, 2005. This monument was dedicated to the Veterans of Trafalgar Township who served in World War I, World War II and the Korea War. The memorial is characterized by a large arch, with limestone panels on the front and brick on the back. Much of the building materials were salvaged from a building (now demolished) called "Trafalgar Memorial Hall". The memorial also features a low brick garden wall that pays homage to the original footprint of the old hall (originally located at the SE corner of Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street). There is also an inclined tablet that holds a variety of bronze plaques listing the names of the men and women who served in WWI, WWII, and the Korean War. There is also one replica plaque that was made to replace the original plaque included at the original memorial hall. The tablet dimensions match the size of the opening in the arch and was meant to subtly represent those who had fallen in service. Trafalgar Township originally included most of the area now known as the Town of Oakville, and portions of what is now Milton. Up until 1962, the Town of Oakville was only a very small area at the mouth of the Sixteen Mile Creek.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Arch and plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
8167
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-004
Type
Address
262 Randall Street
Location
St. John's United Church
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.4475962, -79.6688442
Inscription

MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE

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Photo Credit
Geoff Macquire
Caption
front view
War or Conflict Term
Province
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Body Content

The Soldier's Window is dedicated to the 17 members of St. John's United Church congregation who died in the First World War. The stained glass window, manufactured in 1919 by Luxfer Prism Co. Ltd. of Toronto, was erected by the congregation of St. John's United Church. The Unveiling Service and Dedication took place July 25, 1920. The cover of the church bulletin that sunny Sunday read: "Unveiling of the Memorial Window erected in loving memory of OUR HEROES who fell in the Great War... Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. " John 15:13. The sermon Life and Sacrifice was delivered by Capt. the Rev. J.W. Magwood, the dedicatory prayer by Capt. the Rev. W.B. Caswell. The choir anthem, There is a Green Hill Far Away, was followed by a solo by Mrs. W.T. Merry entitled, God Shall Wipe Away All Tears from Their Eyes. The Ladies' Octet sang Abide With Me. Of the ten stained glass windows in the church, The Soldier's Window is the most unusual. Instead of the conventional Biblical scene, it depicts a contemporary man in what is otherwise a religious setting. The Canadian soldier with the maple leaves on his collar and cap, bears no visible military rank or insignia, emphasizing his Everyman quality. He carries only a bugle or small trumpet and a flag, which appears to be the Canadian Red Ensign, precursor of the present day Maple Leaf. The bars of the Union Jack in the flag's upper right-hand corner form a red cross which he appears to carry over his right shoulder, just as his Savior behind him bore a similar burden. The soldier's stance is reluctant, pulling away from his ultimate fate. The promise of salvation is echoed in the scriptural reference at the bottom of the window, 2 Corinthians 12:9 My grace is sufficient for thee. The choice of colours in the window is also symbolic. Gold, red, blue and white are predominant. As sun streams through the window, the soldier's khaki uniform is transformed into a burnished, verdigrised gold, re-echoed in the bugle, the flag's fringe, and Christ's halo. Gold represents something of great value and purity. Red, of course, symbolizes the blood of life, sacrifice, loyalty, and our communion with God. It appears in the flag, which is draped around the soldier and within the flag, in the red cross of St. George, patron saint of England. Blue is visible in the sky above the soldier, but not above Christ, suggesting He is otherworldly, and in the top right-hand corner of the flag, part of the cross of St. Andrew, a white x-shaped cross on a blue background. Blue, the ancient colour of purity, also symbolizes great courage and endurance. White, the ancient colour of mourning, enrobes Christ and also represents purity and innocence. Below the window are two plaques commemorating those members of the church who died in the First and Second World Wars. The cost of the window in 1919 was $210. Today, its replacement value would exceed $10,000.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Stained glass window and plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
5807
City/Municipality
Oakville
Memorial Number
35057-003
Type
Address
2500 Lakeshore Road West
Location
Chris Volkes Memorial park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
43.3929482, -79.712738
Inscription

[front/devant]

A TRIBUTE
TO THE DEAD
AN ADMONITION
TO THE LIVING
LEST WE FORGET

[right side/côté droite]
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 1945

[back/arrière]
KOREA
1950 1953

[left side/côté gauche]
FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 1918

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back
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front
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front and left side
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front and right side
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Oakville Cenotaph
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Province
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Body Content

This memorial is dedicated to those from the Oakville area who died in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War.

City
Oakville
Country
Type Description
Shaft
Photo Credit
Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
Memorial CF Legacy ID
5516