 Horst Oertel wrote "An Appreciation" to his friend that was published in "The Times" of London in 1941,

Meredith died shortly before his eightieth birthday (‘birthdays are not the kind of thing one wants to commemorate’ he once said), after an illness of several weeks.He died at his home on Pine Avenue in the Golden Square Mile shortly after eleven o’clock of that morning, predominantly of old age.Meredith's funeral was one of the largest ever seen in Montreal, and out of respect the practice division of the courts were closed for the day.