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A Memorial Service was held on September 30, 1945 to unveil the Wesley United Church Mimico Second World War Honour Roll. In 2021, the church donated the Honour Roll to David Hornell Junior School.

On October 27, 1947, the chimes were installed in the church pipe organ as a gift from Dr. Gordon Ferrier and Mrs. Ferrier in memory of their son. The chimes were dedicated by Rev. William Fingland, DD, of Niagara Falls.

Flying Officer Ferrier had completed one tour of operations, joined the Pathfinders and was on his sixth or seventh flight operating from Oakington, Cambridge, when he failed to return.

The Wesley Mimico United Church building at 47 Station Road was sold in 2016. The chimes no longer exists and the plaque is in storage at the church office on Lake Shore Boulevard West.

The New Toronto Soldiers’ Comforts Association sent thousands of parcels overseas containing: electric fans, scrim curtains, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shaving materials, playing cards, cigarettes, chocolate,  and socks. At war’s end, the association used $800 left over cash to construct a fountain as a permanent memorial to 19 New Toronto soldiers of the Great War who died on active service. The fountain is about seven feet high and weighs 626 pounds. 

Recollections of the subsequent moves provided by Sharon Kettlewell Stewart of Mimico, and Martha Jackson, of Etobicoke:

On June 3, 1920, the fountain was unveiled at its first location at the southwest corner of Lake Shore Road and Eighth Street outside the Brown Building. Eight hundred people attended the unveiling by Mrs. Edward Janes, president of the local association. Rev. A.S. Madill of St. Margaret’s Anglican Church said of the men, “They proved themselves worthy of the great British stock from which they sprang.” Rev. Harold Toye of Century Methodist Church offered a prayer of dedication. A.E. Boyer, president of the local branch of the G.W.V.A. thanked the women. Wives and relatives of the fallen were given a place of honour at the gathering; two New Toronto Boy Scout troops formed a cordon around the fountain. The New Toronto Brass Band played national and martial airs, and “God Save the King.”

It is believed the fountain then moved to Rotary Park, at the bottom of the hill between Eleventh and Tenth streets on the Lake Ontario shoreline. The fountain was moved again or possibly stored at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3, Seventh Street. In the 1960s, this was the marshalling area for Remembrance Day parades and poppy distribution. The fountain and cenotaph next appeared at the new site of Branch 3 Legion on the southwest corner of Birmingham and Eighth streets, when the Seventh Street building was torn down.

Since 2016, the fountain has been at is current location. The cenotaph was refurbished and installed at its current location in early 2018.

The memorial pool and health centre is on Montgomery Road in Toronto.

The New Toronto Cenotaph, a 7.5 meter granite memorial, was donated by the community and located at Mimico Town Hall at 185 Fifth Street. In 1983, it was relocated to 150 Eighth Street, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3. When the legion property was sold in October 2020, the cenotaph was relocated to its current location in Colonel Samuel Smith Park. Petrogold Inc. bought the legion property and, understanding the importance of the cenotaph to the community, not only worked with the legion to move it, but paid for its relocation.

The cenotaph was rededicated on 10 November 2020. In May of 2021, inscriptions for Afghanistan and Peacekeeping were added.

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.

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.

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.

Adjacent to the Cenotaph, a provincial plaque commemorating Corporal Frederick George Topham, V.C., an Etobicoke war Hero. It was erected in 1980. Refer to memorial number 35021-001

Constructed in 1968 in memory of those who gave their lives in World War I (1914 - 1918), World War II (1939 - 1945), and the Korean War (1950 - 1953). War Memorial - Etobicoke Municipal Centre The Board of Control received a report from the Director of Information Services dated August 15th, 1968, dealing with the establishment of a war memorial at the Municipal Centre and recommending that the clock tower be converted into a memorial, in accordance with a design submitted by Mr. R. Russell, an interested citizen. The report advised that the cost of converting the clock tower would amount to the sum of $1,250.00 all inclusive and, further, that the five Legions throughout the Borough of Etobicoke were in complete accord with the proposal.** Remembrance and poppy week services held annually at the Cenotaph. **Fifteenth Report of the Board of Control Adopted by Council, Sept. 9, 1968 Refer to memorial number 35021-002