HMCS Toronto

The official lineage of HMCS Toronto extant commissioned ship.

Badge

Badge

Description

Azure a mural crown Argent masoned Sable surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw a fid spike Or.

Significance

A mural crown over the shield in the arms of a community usually indicates that the place is or was a fortified settlement. In the Arms of Toronto reference to Old Fort York is made by the display of the mural crown above the shield. This is surmounted by a beaver, which here is intended to refer to industry and also to the fact that Old Fort York was once a centre of fur trade with the Natives in that region.

The badge of Toronto does honour to that city by using the crest from the civic arms with necessary and appropriate difference by having the beaver hold a fid which associates the Toronto beaver with things nautical.

Motto

EXCELLENCE WITH VIGOUR

Colours

Blue and White

Battle Honours

The Second World War

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE, 1944.

Lineage

First of Name

  • Frigate, River Class.
  • Commissioned 6 May 1944.Footnote 1
  • Paid off 27 November 1945.Footnote 2
  • Converted to a Prestonian Class ocean escort and recommissioned 26 November 1953.Footnote 3
  • Paid off 14 April 1956.Footnote 4

Second of Name

  • Frigate, Halifax Class.
  • Commissioned 29 July 1993.Footnote 5

Operational history

The Second World War

Toronto served on escort duties off the coast of Nova Scotia and in the North Atlantic with 'Halifax Force'.Footnote 6

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