TOPIC:

TITLE: CITY OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, WELCOME HOME MEDAL

METAL: SILVER

RIBBON: SAME RIBBON AS USED ON QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL

NAMED: SEE BELOW, (Note: I have seven in my collection 4 named, 3 un-named)

SIZE: 34.4 mm

HERN'S CATALOGUE NUMBER: 872
HIBBARD'S CATALOGUE NUMBER: H-1
GEORGE A. BROWN PAGE: PAGE 23/24

CASED: NO

CLASSIFICATION: WELCOME HOME MEDALDESIGNER: P. W. ELLIS, TORONTO

OBVERSE: CIRCULAR WITH PROTRUDING QUEEN'S CROWN AND TWO CHAINS THAT FASTEN THE MEDAL TO THE BROOCH SUSPENDER WHICH HAS A CENTRAL MAPLE LEAF OVER CROSSED RIFLES AND RIBBON BANNER READING "TORONTO / WELCOMES / HER SONS". ON FACE OF MEDAL IS A SOLDIER COMING HOME TO BE WELCOMED BY HIS MOTHER / WIFE AND DOG, COVERD BY BRANCH OF GRAPES, DOORWAY AND PICKET FENCE IN BACKGROUND.

REVERSE: CIRCLE OF LAUREL LEAVES IS THE HILT OF A SWORD POINTING DOWN WITH THE WORS "SOUTH AFRICA" EITHER SIDE OF THE HILT, AND THE DATE, A DOVE BELOW WITH RIBBON THAT READS "WELCOME HOME" ON RIGHT SIDE IS THE WORD "CANADA'S" AND ON LEFT "BRAVE BOYS"

TYPE ONE: THE DATE SHOWN ON REVERSE 1900. (NOTE: These are the medals that were presented by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on their cross Canada tour, see Westmount Medal) AND SEEM TO BE THE ONLY ONES THAT WERE OFFICIALLY NAMED.

POSSIBLE TYPE TWO:THE DATE SHOWN ON REVERSE 1901. This one has not been reported but there is a possiblity that there is one, if you have a Toronto Welcome Home Medal in your collection can you please check to see if it is Named and Date.

TYPE THREE: DATE SHOWN ON REVERSE 1902. Have not found one of these officially named yet. Please see photo of bronze medallion that was sold to the general public.

Remembered that I had this ribbon......

Worn by member of City Council Alderman....

Understand that a red ribbon was worn by the Mayor....

Badge at top is a pin version of the Canadian Boer War Cap Badge....

Mike

This is the one I just picked up.
Not silver perhaps a souvenir of the event?

Hi Mike,

I am presently trying to put together a list of recipients of the Toronto medal for the Tribute Medal Database.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Do you, for instance, have a list of extant named examples?

SEE: Toronto Tribute Medal

Neville


I recently stumbled across across this article, written by a Dawson reporter who mistakenly believed the souvenir copies to be the medals given to the returning Torontonians.

Dawson Weekly News, 26th April 1901

SOUVENIRS OF THE WAR DISPLAYED HERE

Bronze Medals presented to Canadian Heroes Now on Exhibition in The City.

The first of the medals presented to Canada’s bravest volunteers, who served in the South African war, that have been publicly displayed in Dawson are now on exhibition in the show window of J.L. Sale & Co., jewellers. Considerable interest has been taken in them by those who have heard of them, particularly by the members of the N.W.M.P.

The medals belong to Sale & Co. The firm that manufactured them gave them to Mr Sale while he was in eastern Canada several weeks ago, simply as specimens of their work for display, but by no means to make a practice of distributing such favours. It was an especial favour shown Mr Sale.

There are three medals in the lot. All are of bronze with clear cut figures in cameo and intaglio.

One is that given to the Strathconas – Colonel Steele’s boys. On the obverse side it bears in relief the figures of the foremost of an advancing column of the mounted troopers with one of them holding a waving pennant bearing the word “Strathconas”. On one side are the words, “For South Africa”; on the reverse side are the coat of arms of the provinces of Canada and in the centre of them the words, “Canada congratulates the Queen”.

Another of the medals bears on the obverse side the figure of a bird flying downward with a laurel branch and about the figure the words, “Canada’s Brave Boys, South Africa”. On the reverse side is a representation of a returning soldier meeting his wife beneath a flourishing green tree.

The third medal shows the trooper holding high a bunch of Canadian maple leaves and the words, “Canada Shares in the Glory, South Africa, 1900”. Around the outer edge are the words, “Herald Patriotic Fund, Halifax”. On the reverse side is the coat of arms of the Dominion of Canada.






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Hi and Good Morning Neville

I have the planchet only for the following......

218 Corporal T. Callaghan, DCM, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles......

Have been looking for an un-named medal to do repairs.......

Mike

See:

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/20-tribute-me...ian-dcm-winner#70658

Thank you Mike,

Callaghan added to list.
This clearly shows that there are plenty of names unaccounted for. I will keep searching.

I will let you know if I come across an unnamed medal that is suitable. I have one, but it is too nice an example to break up...!

Happy Christmas,
Neville