The Soldiers' Tower Memorial Room and Carillon

05/07/2026

Schedule for May, 2026.

04/03/2026

Schedule for April, 2026.

03/15/2026

Schedule for March, 2026.

11/10/2025

Carillon schedule for November, 2025.

Please join us for the University of Toronto's Service of Remembrance at 10:30 am on Tuesday, November 11.

11/10/2025

The University of Toronto community will gather on Nov. 11 to observe Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

The Service of Remembrance takes place at Soldiers’ Tower on the St. George campus. Proceedings begin with a carillon recital by composer-performer Naoko Tsujita at 10:10 a.m., with the official ceremony commencing at 10:30 a.m.

The ceremony will include a land acknowledgement, a reflection on Remembrance Day, a performance of the Naval Hymn by the Hart House Chorus and a recitation of “In Flanders Fields,” written by U of T alum and physician John McCrae. There will also be a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and a presentation about how Canada helped liberate northwestern Europe. Wreaths will be laid by representatives of the university and the broader community.

U of T President Melanie Woodin is scheduled to attend, as are other dignitaries including local MP Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

10/12/2025

Sub-Lieutenant George Henry Kirkpatrick Strathy

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Trinity College, BA 1940. Naval Officers Course, April 1940. Killed in action at sea aboard HMS Ajax, 12 October 1940. Name inscribed on the Halifax Memorial, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Memorial plaque also located in the south end of St. James Cathedral (Anglican), Toronto, Ontario.

Photo Credits: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial

10/11/2025

Flight Sergeant Francis Ridout Humphreys

RCAF, 7 Sqn RAF

Graduate UTS 1925. Former student in Dentistry, 1925-26. Killed in an air operation over Cologne, Germany, 11 October 1941. Buried at South Cologne. Exhumed and reburied in the War Cemetery, Rheinberg, Germany.

Photo Credits: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial

09/19/2025

08/11/2025

'The Maple Leaf Forever’ performed by Naoko Tsujita () during the Canada Day Carillon Recital, July 1, 2025.

08/08/2025

Captain Ernest Reginald Waldie

8 LAA Regt RCA, Royal Canadian Artillery

College of Pharmacy, PhmB 1933. Killed on active service in North-West Europe, 8 August 1944. Buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, France.

Excerpt of letter to his brother written Nov. 12, 1943: "Well, Ralph, I have been living under a lucky star. I was on the assault wave in the Sicilian show and the first five days was with front line fighting. We were trapped twice and under direct heavy fire, also under fire for 12 days straight. We lived through the lizards, flies, malaria, typhoid etc. One morning we were advancing with the infantry piled on our trucks and guns...Jerry had prepared a trap and we walked right into it. All hell broke loose just at dawn..we were on a mountain road and only one way to go. We were mortared and 88mm from up front and machine gunned from all sides including the rear. We put the guns into action right on the road and shot out 3 pill boxes and cleared a whole ridge of machine guns ..One day I was catching up on a little sleep when 5 FW 190s came over and threw mud in my face from their cannon fire, but two of them will never fly again. We haven't shot many down but we've kept them high and they've only been successful in placing their bombs twice in the whole show. We are on board ship again and this time tomorrow, if I can keep my head down, I'll be in Italy. I'm in on the first wave again but don't have to go over the side, the guns and trucks are with us this time so we drop the ramp and drive off - our job is the beach this time so we will be first in to give them ack-ack cover while the rest are landing. We are due to land in 7 hours - there isn't the same excitement this time - just another exercise. The radio is blasting away - a hot orchestra is playing - there is a poker game with very high stakes beside me and the sea breeze is very welcome - what a war! Tomorrow morning you wouldn't recognize them as the same men. They are sure a tough lot going into battle."