The Soldier
Municipality/Province: Toronto, ON
Memorial number: 35090-068
Type: Shaft, statue
Address: 286 Harbord Street
Location: Harbord Collegiate Institute
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.6607742 Long: -79.414093
Submitted by: Victoria Edwards
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
The Harboard Collegiate Great War Memorial, a sculpture by Frank Kovac Lane, was erected in 1921 and rededicated in 2005. The name of the sculptor, Geo. W. Hill, is etched into the base of the statue.
George William Hill was born in Shipton, Eastern Townships, in 1861. He learned to carve marble in his father’s company, after he graduated from college. Between 1889 and 1894, he left Quebec to study sculpting at the École nationale des beaux-arts and Académie Julian in Paris. When he returned to Montreal, he opened a studio and worked with architect Robert Findlay and brothers Edward and William S. Maxwell. Known for his public monuments and war memorials, he is now considered one of the most important Canadian sculptors of the early twentieth century.
Hill designed several monuments commemorating Canadians lost in the South African War, including the Strathcona and South African Soldiers' Memorial in Quebec and Boer War Soldiers Monument in Ontario. At the end of the First World War, Hill was awarded several contracts by towns and cities wishing to pay homage to citizens who had died on the battlefields. Between 1920 and 1930 he designed these monuments: Westmount Cenotaph, Magog Cenotaph, Argenteuil Cenotaph, Richmond Cenotaph, Sherbrooke War Memorial in Quebec; Pictou County War Memorial in Nova Scotia; Soldier's Monument, The Soldier and Nurses’ Memorial in Ontario; and the Soldier's Monument in Prince Edward Island.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
HARBORD COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE TORONTO
VIRTUS ET DOCTRINA
THESE FORMER PUPILS
DIED FOR HUMANITY
IN
THE GREAT WAR
OF
1914 - 1919
"WE ARE THE DEAD, SHORT DAYS AGO
WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW
LOVED AND WERE LOVED, AND NOW WE LIE
IN FLANDERS FIELDS."
[right side/côté droit]
GEO.W. HILL
LT. F.H. LANGSTONE
FL. LT. AUSTIN R. LAPP
LT. JOHN LEONARD, M.C.
CAPT. L.B.M. LOUDON
A.W. McALLISTER
HAROLD G. McCONNELL
LT. DOUGLAS F. MacKENZIE
FL. LT. J.L. McLINTOCK
PAUL McLAUGHLIN
MAJOR WILLIAM H. McLAREN
WILFRED MACKLEM
CAPT. F. ROSS MEDLAND
LT. COL. A.A. MILLER
WILLIAM MOFFATT
CAPT. W.M. CARLTON MONK
LT. HAROLD MOSSMAN, M.C.
CAPT. H. GERARD MUNTZ
LT. J.C. NEWCOMBE
NORMAN E.G. PATTON
LT. CECIL V. PERRY, M.C.
LT. WILLIAM PROUDFOOT
LT. H. CHARLES QUAIL
LAWRENCE B. RAMSAY
FL. LT. ARNOLD B. READE
FL. LT. CLIFFORD E. RIDER
CLIFFORD E. ROGERS
LT. FRED. SCOTT
LT. HARLEY SMITH
DOUGLAS SPARKS
LT. JAMES D. STEPHEN
W.E. STEWART
LT. GEOFFREY TAYLOR
NORMAN WHEADON, M.M.
HAROLD WORTHINGTON
LT. GEORGE B. BICKLE
MAJOR FRANK CONNERY
LT. EGERTON B. BAINES
LT. G. THOROLD
SGT. DOUGLAS G. MITCHELL, M.M.
LT. CHARLES L.M. MORRISON
[left side/côté gauche
C. FRED ADAMS
LT. COL. W.D. ALLAN, D.S.O.
CAPT. LOU D. ANDERSON
FL. LT. CHARLES T. BRIMER
LT. B.H. ACTON BURROWS
ROBERT D. CONKLIN
MAJOR JAMES P. CRAWFORD
WILLIAM T. CRUMMY
FL. LT. FRANK W. CURTIS
NURSING SISTER CAROLA DOUGLAS
CAPT. ARTHUR J. DUNCAN
FL. LT. GEORGE S. FLEMING
CHARLES H. FOX
GORDON G. GALLOWAY
NORMAN C. GALE
GUY GARRETT
LT. JAMES A. GARVIE, M.C.
LT. HAROLD GROVES
LT. D. GALER HAGARTY
FL. COM'R. WILLIAM T. HALL
LT. GORDON HAMILTON
CAPT. J. FULLER HENDERSON
RAYMOND F. HENDERSON
LT. CHARLES HEWSON
FL. LT. C. VICTOR HEWSON
LT. RICHARD H. HOCKEN
CAPT. ROBERT HOME
STUART HOUGH
LT. JOHN HOWARD
FL. LT. ALFRED HUTTY
ERIC G. JONES
NURSING SISTER LILY DENTON KEYS
LT. HERBERT N. KLOTZ
LT. LLOYD B. KYLES
MAJOR J. MILES LANGSTAFF
LT. MYER TUTZER COHEN, M.C.
LT. WALTER HOWARD CURRY
LT. COL. THOMAS CRAIK IRVING, D.S.O.
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