Harbord Collegiate Institute

More than 700 answered the call, 52 paid the ultimate price.

He will etch 52 names on a stainless steel statue in front of Harbord Collegiate Institute, the final step in preparing the monument for its official unveiling next Tuesday on the 62nd anniversary of VE Day, the day Germany surrendered in 1945 and ended the war in Europe.

The names are those of Harbord students who did not return from the war; more than 700 students of the downtown high school joined the military service during the Second World War.

He will etch four lines from a poem Live on - But Don't Forget, written by General H. A. Russell at the end of the conflict:

Just a soldier in his teens who

had left a life to give,

Yet brave enough to let it die

to let our freedom live!