¹ Tom, with architects Somerville and Brennan, arranged to build a 165 foot Carillon tower as part of the Niagara Parks project, but its completion was delayed by the war. Tom had arranged in 1941, that the largest bell be inscribed to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt and that is how it arrived in 1945. However, the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King protested, and demanded the inscription be erased and his name added; a controversy raged for several years, but McQuesten resisted and the inscription was never removed or changed. The controversy and other circumstances led to McQuesten's forced resignation from the Bridge Commission. He was also forced to resign from the Niagara Parks Commission in 1943 by premier George Drew.(See Box 14-122, W-MCP7-1.027; Best 179, 189). (See also W-MCP7-1.264 for one page of W.L. Mackenzie's diary in which he notes one of the first meetings with Thomas Baker McQuesten and comments on the fact that McQuesten's father, Isaac, had been the best man at his own father's wedding. This brief meeting occurred in 1921.