…I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the great fallen in 1916. Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean. —Eric Bogle “No Man’s Land (The Green Fields of France)” ©Larrikin Music Our first recorded memorial to an individual was that […]
Toronto schools
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Sackville Street School displays a memorial for World War I, but none for World War II. Little Trinity (Anglican) Church, a three-minute walk (270 metres) northwest of the school, fills some gaps in the neighbourhood history. Of the 581 parishioners involved in World War I, 70 died. A cenotaph beside […]