Wallis House

The building served as a Catholic seminary until 1943, when the military took it over and used it to house members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War.

After the war, it was left empty, leading to protests from returning veterans who faced a housing crisis.

In 1946, a group of veterans and squatters occupied the building until they were forced out by the Governor General's Foot Guards.

The event drew enough attention that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King mandated that it be turned into subsidized housing.

When the Wallis House condos went on sale in October 1995, they were all sold in fewer than twenty-four hours.

The memorial is dedicated to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, GCB (1791-1892), from Halifax, Nova Scotia.