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When Sunnybrook Military Hospital opened in 1948, each treatment block in the main building was identified by a plaque representing military or places of battle where so much was sacrificed. Although the plaques were removed when Sunnybrook transitioned from a Veterans facility to a fully affiliated academic general hospital in 1966, they were rededicated in 2018. Falaise Wing is currently called C Wing.

On August 16, the 2^nd Canadian Infantry Division set out to take Falaise. The following day, its ruins finally fell. Meanwhile, the 4^th Canadian and the 1^st Polish Armoured Divisions hurried to block the German line of retreat just east of the town. As American and Free French forces sped from the south toward Chambois, the 4^th Canadian Armoured occupied Trun from the north on August 18. While the division prepared a line of defence along the Falaise Trun Chambois highway to bar the Germans from breaking out of the pocket, most of the 1^st Polish Armoured took up position further east to head off the imminent enemy attempt to break in and extricate their comrades. The rest of it drove on to Chambois and there joined forces with American troops on August 19.

When Sunnybrook Military Hospital opened in 1948, each treatment block in the main building was identified by a plaque representing military or places of battle where so much was sacrificed. Although the plaques were removed when Sunnybrook transitioned from a Veterans facility to a fully affiliated academic general hospital in 1966, they were rededicated in 2018. Lancaster Wing is currently called C Wing.

The Avro Lancaster was derived from the unsuccessful twin-engine Avro Manchester bomber that first flew in 1939. The decision was made in late 1940 to replace the two Rolls Royce Vulture engines of the Manchester with four of the more reliable Rolls Royce Merlin (in Canada, Packard Merlin) engines, which had a proven record in the Hurricane and Spitfire fighter designs. The revised design was an immediate success and the Lancaster went on to carry the heaviest individual bomb loads of the Second World War. The Lancaster was manufactured in Canada by Victory Aircraft Ltd. in Malton, Ontario, and 430 Mk 10 versions were built. In post-war use, the Canadian- built Lancasters went on to serve in highly useful roles. Quickly converted into photographic reconnaissance variants for charting and mapping and into maritime patrol versions, the Lancaster soldiered on well into the Cold War era.

When Sunnybrook Military Hospital opened in 1948, each treatment block in the main building was identified by a plaque representing military or places of battle where so much was sacrificed. Although the plaques were removed when Sunnybrook transitioned from a Veterans facility to a fully affiliated academic general hospital in 1966, they were rededicated in 2018. Ortona Wing is currently called A Wing.

The mediaeval town of Ortona, with its castle and stone buildings, was situated on a ledge overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Its steep, rubble-filled streets limited the use of tanks and artillery and thus made this an infantryman's struggle. During several days of vicious street fighting, the Canadians smashed their way through walls and buildings—"mouseholing" as they called it. This was Christmas 1943. Meanwhile, a subsidiary attack had been launched to the northwest and the Germans, in danger of being cut off, withdrew from Ortona. The city officially fell on December 28.

When Sunnybrook Military Hospital opened in 1948, each treatment block in the main building was identified by a plaque representing military or places of battle where so much was sacrificed. Although the plaques were removed when Sunnybrook transitioned from a Veterans facility to a fully affiliated academic general hospital in 1966, they were rededicated in 2018. Atlantic Wing is currently called B Wing.

From the very outset of hostilities in the Second World War in 1939, the Atlantic supply route from North America to the United Kingdom was threatened. For six long years the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Merchant Navy and the RCAF were central participants in what was to be known as the Battle of the Atlantic.

The sea lanes of the North Atlantic formed a grim battleground. Navigation was hazardous, and sailors in the navy and merchant marine died not only from enemy attack, but from exposure and accidents in the fog and winter gales. Nor was protection sufficient to prevent heavy losses. There were too few naval vessels and maritime patrol aircraft available, as well as a severe lack of training and modern equipment and technology.

In 1939, Canada possessed only a few dozen Canadian-registered merchant ships, six destroyers, five small minesweepers, two training vessels, and a single squadron of modern military flying boats. No one would have predicted that, from this tiny beginning, Canada's forces would go on to play a large and significant part in the Atlantic war, and that the Canadian Merchant Navy would carry cargoes around the world.

This Honour Roll commemorates the courage and service of young men and women of the Jewish Community of Timmins who volunteered in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War.

This window was presented by the Patients of the Veterans' Review Board of Editors in memory of the Veteran patients at Sunnybrook Hospital.

The We Will Remember Them Window was donated by the Ontario Command of the Royal Canadian Legion. St. John is seen in the center with First World War symbols throughout including two Legion badges at the top which astride the Canadian Army badge. Below St. John are important First World War symbols: the lapel pin for King and Empire services rendered for those who served during the war; a sliver cross which was given to mothers who sons had died in battle; and the lapel pin for Canadian Expeditionary Force service at the Front, for soldiers that fought at the Front - it has a British Flag.

This window was donated by the Nursing Sisters of Canada. The Canadian Army Medical Corps, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and Canada's Nursing Sisters are featured.

This window honours the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps who provided army logistics in the field during the First World War, Second World War and Korean War.

The Royal Regiment of Canada Window consists of three panes and was donated by the Royal Regiment of Canada. The center pane commemorates the Dieppe Raid in which the regiment suffered enormous casualties. Afterwards, they were part of the invasion force in Normandy which is commemorated on the left pane. They fought through Northwest Europe and were in Holland when the war ended which is depicted in the right pane.