North House First World War Plaque

This plaque is one of numerous memorials erected on the University of Toronto campus in the aftermath of the Great War (later called the First World War). It commemorates the men of North House who fell in that conflict. The manufacturer’s stamp in fine lettering on the bottom rim reads: CANADIAN WM. A. ROGERS LIMITED SOLID BRONZE. The place where the plaque hangs was, at that time, an exterior wall of North House.

North House was a residence for men of various University of Toronto faculties. Along with neighbouring South House and East House, the buildings were originally called the Devonshire residences. During the First World War, the buildings were utilized by the Royal Flying Corps. During the Second World War, the buildings were used as an evacuation center for children from England, and then as a training center for the Air Force. In the mid-1950’s,  a new level of governance came into being to oversee the three residences and the name of “Devonshire House” was officially adopted.

The residences were closed in 1997, and as part of an architectural renovation completed in 2000, the buildings were brought together under one roof into a new complex for the Munk Centre for International Studies, subsequently named the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. The plaque, formerly exterior, is now an interior plaque.

NORTH HOUSE
[University of Toronto Crest/Insigne de l’Université de Toronto]
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

IN MEMORY OF
THE NORTH HOUSE MEN
1914 WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR. 1918

• JAMES DOUGLAS AIKEN
• MONTAGU HERBERT BIRD
• JAMES GORDON BOLE
• HAROLD STAPLES BREWSTER
• GEORGE GORDON DUNCAN
• FRANKLIN JAMES FOSTER
• WILLIAM ROBERT GREEN
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• DONALD GORDON MACLEAN
• DAVID DOUGLAS MACLEOD
• JOHN FREELE MEEK
• ELFRIC ASHBY TWIDALE
• GERALD EDWIN WELLS
• GEORGE ALFRED WHATELY
• JAMES LEROY WHITSIDE
• FREDERICK LAWRENCE EARDLEY-WILMOT