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=== Flame of Hope === A "[[Flame of Hope (diabetes)|Flame of Hope]]" was lit by Her Majesty [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]]<ref name=CDA>{{cite web |title=Sir Frederick G. Banting Square |url=http://www.diabetes.ca/about-cda/banting-house/sir-frederick-g-banting-square |website=Canadian Diabetes Association |access-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117160806/https://www.diabetes.ca/about-cda/banting-house/sir-frederick-g-banting-square |url-status=dead }}</ref> in 1989 as a tribute to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and all the people that have lost their lives to [[diabetes]]. The flame will remain lit until there is a cure for diabetes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/pioneers/frederick-banting.html |title=Frederick Banting |publisher=[[Diabetes.co.uk]] |access-date=September 7, 2015}}</ref> When a cure is found, the flame will be extinguished by the researchers who discover the cure. The flame is located at Sir Frederick Banting Square in [[London, Ontario]], Canada beside the Banting House National Historic Site of Canada.<ref name=CDA/><ref>{{cite book |first1=Garfield |last1=Gini-Newman |first2=Bob |last2=Aitken |first3=Diane |last3=Eaton |first4=Dick |last4=Holland |first5=John |last5=Montgomery |first6=Sonia |last6=Riddock |title=Canada: A Nation Unfolding |publisher=McGraw-Hill Ryerson School |edition=2nd |date=2000}}</ref>
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