Toronto Railway Mail Clerks Memorial Plaque

The efforts of the Toronto Railway Mail Clerks during the Great War were remembered by a commemorative plaque. The Toronto Railway Mail Clerks lost five men in the First World War. In 1889, the Railway Mail Clerk’s Association meets for the first time. Around 1916, the Association becomes the Dominion Railway Mail Clerk’s Federation, and, later, about 1951, the union is renamed the Canadian Railway Mail Clerks’ Federation. This memorial was erected by the Railway Mail Clerk’s Association Toronto.

Inscription

1914 – 1918

IN MEMORY OF
THE RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS
OF TORONTO DISTRICT
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR

J.L. MOWAT
W.H. WATSON
T.H. PRICE
A. KIRK
D.L. McKINNON

AND IN HONOUR OF THEIR
FELLOW CLERKS WHO SERVED.

ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE
RAILWAY MAIL CLERK’S ASSOCIATION TORONTO

Cette plaque commémore la contribution des commis ambulants de Toronto pendant la Grande Guerre, au cours de laquelle cinq d’entre eux ont péri. L’Association des commis ambulants s’est réunie pour la première fois en 1889. Vers 1916, elle est devenue la Fédération des commis ambulants du Dominion puis, vers 1951, elle a pris le nom de Fédération des commis ambulants du Canada. Ce mémorial a été érigé par la section torontoise de l’Association des commis ambulants.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.