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Old City Hall Cenotaph

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The Old City Hall Cenotaph in July 2005. (Photo by Bob Krawczyk.)

The Old City Hall Cenotaph in 2017. (Image courtesy of cmh2315fl.)

The Old City Hall Cenotaph in 2017. (Image courtesy of Oaktree b.)

The Old City Hall Cenotaph in 1939. (Image courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.)

The Old City Hall Cenotaph in 1933. (Image courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.)

The previous Old City Hall Cenotaph, wreath-strewn on November 11, 1922. (Image courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.)

BUILDING INFORMATION

Name & Location:

Old City Hall Cenotaph
60 Queen Street West
Toronto
Yonge-Bay Corridor

Year Completed:

1924-1925

OTHER IDENTIFICATION

Notes:

The current Old City Hall Cenotaph was constructed from Canadian Shield granite between 1924 and 1925, apparently to replace a wood memorial from the first Armistice Day in 1919. I was the architects Ferguson and Pomphery based on the Cenotaph erected in Whitehall, London, England, just four years earlier. From the Greek roughly meaning "empty tomb", a cenotaph is meant to memorialize the individual and collective dead at once.

Status:

Completed

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Companies:

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Architect - Ferguson and Pomphery <-- More buildings by this architect.

BUILDING DATA

Building Type:

Monument

Heritage Status:

Listed

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