Enter the main building of Trinity College (6 Hoskin Ave on the University of Toronto campus) and turn left down the hall to the chapel, a quiet Gothic sanctuary in a busy city. Pass through the narthex, home to several tablets commemorating individual graduates, to the nave. There on the east wall is a carved stone memorial to those college alumni and staff who died in WW1 and WW2.
The memorial was designed by Toronto architect Allan George. The header – as dying and behold we live – is from 2 Corinthians 6:9 in the King James Bible.* Three heraldic roundels in the lower frame were probably designed by Alexander Scott Carter, a British-born Canadian painter and heraldry designer. It may have been completed at the same time as the chapel in 1955 or installed in 1960.
In 1922, the college published The War Memorial Volume of Trinity College, Toronto, with photos and brief biographies of alumni and alumnae who served in WW1. Amongst the soldiers, doctors and clergy, look for several female physicians, nurses and VADs.
*2 Corinthians 6, KJV:
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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