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This stained glass window consisting of four panels was erected at Grace Church on-the-Hill to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Lieutenant Evan Edward Price who was wounded at Moreuil Wood on 30 March 1918, invalided home and died on 11 September 1919. The windows were made by Robert McCausland Limited and installed in 1919 in the Ambulatory. Separately, the windows depict the four evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John presenting scrolls.

Evan was born on 11 October 1897, to Annie C. and Lewis A. Price in Mount Elgin, Ontario. He was a student at the Upper Canada College and a member of the Governor General’s Body Guard militia when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 11 February 1916. He went overseas with the Canadian Mounted Rifles and later became a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Armoured Regiment). In March of 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; in June he was awarded a Bar to add to the Cross for his courage. In February of 1918 he won the Distinguished Service Order, for his reconnaissance work.

At Grace Church on-the-Hill, a stained glass window was dedicated in 1943 to the memory of Second Lieutenant Maurice Irving Machell who had died in the First World War. The five-light window was designed by Robert McCausland Limited and depicts Christ enthroned, surrounded by angels. A figure on the bottom right holds a stone and is dressed in a dalmatic, symbolizing St. Stephen, first martyr of the Church, who was stoned to death. The figure at the top of the window, on the left, holding a set of scales and dressed in armour. This is St. Michael the Archangel, and the scales allude to the Last Judgment.

Maurice Irving Machell was born 6 May 1891 to Dr. and Mrs. H.T. Machell in in Toronto, Ontario. Maurice was a student at the General Theological Seminary in New York when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 10 November 1914. Originally placed in the 19th Battalion, he was later discharged in order to become a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion. On 15 September 1916 he was killed in action while engaged in operations at the Somme.

A stained glass two light window by R. McCausland was installed in 1919 in memory of a parishioner Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Hobkirk who died at the Battle of Courcelette in 1916 during the First World War. The window features Jesus on the cross. Standing near the cross are Jesus' mother Mary (the wife of Joseph), and his mother's sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.

The WWII Memorial Stained Glass windows by Guido Nincheri, an Italian-Canadian master, depict an angel dressed as a roman soldier lifting a fallen soldier from a battle field cemetery to God in heaven.

On 5 November 1922 a stained-glass window was unveiled at Church of the Holy Trinity by Bishop of Toronto James Fielding Sweeny, dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Gavin Ince Langmuir, who was killed in the First World War. The upper panes of the window depict St. Michael coming to Joan of Arc with a laurel wreath of victory. The lower panes are dedicated to his parents and depict Jesus is depicted preaching to Langmuir's father. Above the window panels is the family crest of a cap and greyhound. The window was designed and constructed by N.T. Lyon Co.

Langmuir was born on 10 October 1892 in Toronto, Ontario to Archibald David and Margaret Langmuir. He worked as an appraiser and was a member of the 48th Highlanders militia; on 20 September 1914, he was commissioned to be a lieutenant in the 15th Battalion. On the first day of Second Ypres, 22 April 1915, he was reported missing, later presumed to have been killed in action.

After the Battle of Vimy Ridge was won on April 12, 1917, Lieutenant Leslie Miller, a soldier from Ontario, gathered up a handful of acorns as a souvenir to the momentous victory. On returning to Canada, he transplanted the acorns on his land, calling his property the Vimy Oaks Farm. Today nine of the oak trees he planted are still standing on what is now the current site of Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, Toronto, Ontario.

Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church partners with Vimy Oak Legacy, allowing them to access the site and harvest the acorns. In 2017, over 1,500 descendant trees grew at a nursery near Hamilton, with several hundred repatriated to Vimy Ridge, France in 2018. Vimy Oak Legacy has also invited planting of the young saplings in different commemorative sites all over Canada.

Leslie Miller was born October 5, 1889 on the family farm in Scarborough, Ontario. Following his studies at the University of Toronto he moved to Saskatchewan to teach. In October 1914, he enlisted as a private in the 24th Border Horse of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He subsequently joined the Signal Corps and was assigned to the 5th Battalion.

He rose through the ranks and received a field commission as 1st Lieutenant in 1918. In the Signal Corps, he mastered the means of communication (semaphore, Morse code, even pigeons) and trained other soldiers in these same skills. He deployed wireless technology and sent, received and decoded messages. His fluency in French and German were particularly valuable for which he received commendations.

Leslie Miller’s war diary is largely devoted to the friendships he cultivated with local French families, his fellow soldiers, his interaction with German prisoners and the nature he discovered around him. Upon returning to Canada, his father gave him 24 acres of the family farm where his Vimy Oaks were growing. He replanted the oaks as part of his woodlot and named his land “The Vimy Oaks”. Leslie Miller died on December 29, 1979, at the age of 90 years.

The Pilot Officer Eric Gordon More Window was created by artist Peter Haworth. The window depicts airmen, St. Michael, and the Royal Canadian Air Force Crest.

The WWII Memorial Window includes Fragments collected by DR. R.F. Sneyd from churches damaged during the 2nd World War. Ernst Taylor, the artist 1950, has placed most of the historic fragments around the edges of the window to be a realistic part of the pictures in these windows. He has pained six large and bright sunflowers here to give brightness and color and depth, but also to suggest that they are looking up toward the light. The butterflies suggest the matter of air and flight created by these insects. The seven doves suggest the motion of flight and, of course, symbolize peace. The uniformed figures represent “the flight to Glory” of those who have died sacrificially.

Your vantage as you look through this window is presumed to be in a church where the windows have been destroyed. In the five lower section on each side you will observe fragments of glass which come to a point in a Gothic frame. Through the left panel you observe Chichester Cathedral in southern England near which the Canadian Army was stationed between 1939 and 1945. Through the right window there is the outline of the Martinikirk in Groningan Holland where I conducted a Thanksgiving Service for 5th Canadian Armoured Division the Sunday following VE Day. The top two sections of these windows have figure wearing uniforms and surmounting them is the figure of Christ. In the mullion at the top there is a beautiful swirl of glass with a modernistic touch and this centres on a circle representing the source of light.

The children in the bottom two sections are picking up fragments from the floor of the church and are looking up in wonder, trying to realize what it is all about. They represent those who are looking for an explanation and toward the light. At the bottom of the window we have life in the children and then, as we progress upward, destruction, then peace in the doves, triumph in the warriors, and the victorious figure of Christ surmounting the whole. From the material and finite things in the fragments of glass we progress toward the infinite and spiritual. The theme is that all movement is upward to The Great Source of Light.

On September 9, 1923, a window on the west transept of Metropolitan Church was dedicated by Reverend Dr. G.H. Williams to the 36 members of the church who died in the First World War. It was unveiled by Lieutenant-Colonel A.H. Borden, DSO.

The window depicts David and the Mighty Men - King David, angels, soldiers, Dominion Coat of Arms and the Royal Coat of Arms. It was constructed by R. McCausland.

Metropolitan Methodist Church, known as the "Cathedral of Methodism" in Toronto, traces its roots to 1818. In 1925, it entered the United Church of Canada as Metropolitan United Church. 

The First World War memorial baptistery at St. Thomas's is graced with Great War memorial windows. The windows were created in 1922 by Archibald John Davies (b. 1877) of the Bromsgrove Guild, England to remember the deaths suffered by the parish's sons (and one daughter) in 1914-18. They consist of five twin-light windows depicting knights, saints, angels, a wounded soldier, and the Crucifixion.