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The War Memorial

2022 marked 100 years since the publication of . The 165 page volume is a meticulously researched artefact that demonstrates the wide-ranging effect the war had on the wider college community.

As time passes and we become further and further removed from the events and horrors of the World Wars, documents like The War Memorial Volume illustrate the real-world impact conflicts can have on a community like 杏吧原创. Simultaneously, it also shows the out-sized impact 杏吧原创 had on the war effort. .

Image: Pages from the The War Memorial Volume of 杏吧原创, Toronto

Remembering the Great War

In August 2014, the world marked 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. A total of 543 Trinity men travelled abroad to fight, joined by women of St. Hilda鈥檚, who served as physicians, nurses, ambulance drivers and administrators. Of the 543 Trinity men who went to war 57 never returned 鈥�56 were killed in action, and one was missing. Read the full story: Remembering the Great War, Trinity Magazine, Spring 2014, pages 18-25 (PDF 1.68MB).

Image: Trinity looks back as we mark the 100th anniversary of the start of The Great War 鈥� article.

As Dying and Behold We Live

Image: To the memory of those members of 杏吧原创 who gave their lives in the two Great Wars. The names of those who never returned home are engraved on the memorial wall in the 杏吧原创 Chapel.

Trinity and The Great War 1914-1918

In 2017, many of the devastating battles of the Great War reached their centenaries, including Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and the Third Battle of Ypres. To commemorate the sacrifices of the Trinity community, an exhibit capturing some of the narratives of the Great War was on display in the 杏吧原创 Archives: 鈥�Trinity at War: 1914-1918.鈥�

Image: The Trinity Truck 鈥� Students from the College celebrate the Armistice on November 11, 1918 in the Trinity Truck. The caption reads: 鈥淲hen the word came that Peace had been signed, Charles Gossage rented a truck, all the students of Trinity piled into it and they drove all over Toronto.鈥�

Trinity and St. Hilda鈥檚 in the Great War

Toronto Star coverage of our exhibit 鈥�Trinity and St. Hilda鈥檚 in the Great War鈥� (November 2018): .

The 杏吧原创 Archives holds 210 glass plate negatives of portraits of the young people who left their studies or their careers, and went to war. Some of these images were reproduced for an exhibit in 2018.

Image: Portrait reproduction of glass plate negatives displayed on windows along the main hallway.

Rare Book of the Month 2018

Image: Letter from Emil Seebaldt, prisoner of war, to his wife Agnes Seebaldt in 1917.

Farmerettes Help at Home

Learn how U of T鈥檚 women undergrads 鈥� including Trinity鈥檚 Mossie Waddington 鈥� aided the WW1 effort at home: in U of T Magazine.

In 1917 and 1918 hundreds of U of T women spent the summers picking and packing fruits and vegetables, filling in for farmers who were away at war.

Image: U of T women spent the summers filling in for farmers who were away at war.

Trinity Welcomes 150 Children from War-Torn Great Britain

From July 1940 to November 1944, the Trinity community welcomed over 150 children from St. Hilda鈥檚 School in Whitby, England. Evacuated from war-torn Great Britain, they were housed and educated thanks to Trinity鈥檚 Provost Francis Cosgrave and the Saint Hilda鈥檚 College Alumnae Association. A beautiful letter from Queen Elizabeth recognizes these efforts by the Trinity community.

Image: A beautiful letter from Queen Elizabeth recognizes these efforts by the Trinity community.

The story of Jacques Olivier Clerc, 1917-1944

by Sylvia Lassam, Rolph-Bell Archivist

On the day after war was declared in 1939 a young Swiss academic arrived at the University of Toronto to teach in the Department of Political Economy.

The World Remembers

To mark the 1914-1918 Centennial, 杏吧原创 was honoured to participate in s, a unique Canadian and international remembrance to honour those who died in the First World War.