Remembrance Day

Residents and veterans gathered at cenotaphs around the Okanagan on Saturday morning to commemorate Remembrance Day. In Penticton, around 400 people assembled at Veterans Memorial Park, one of two ceremonies held in the South…
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Snowflakes drifted overhead as the Remembrance Day parade marched in Fredericton, N.B., on Saturday, but the cold and the wind didn’t stop a couple hundred people from gathering. People of all generations lined the street, ready to…
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size People are expected to be out by the hundreds at the Sullivan’s Pond Cenotaph in Dartmouth on Saturday morning for the…
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Nearly two decades have passed since the federal government introduced the New Veterans Charter, which shifted away from traditional pensions to offering veterans lump-sum payments for service-related injuries, along with training…
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatoon’s 92nd annual Remembrance Day service will be held at the SaskTel Centre on Saturday. The doors will open at…
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The time around Remembrance Day is tough for Second World War veterans like Hank Jackson, who turns 103 in January. “It’s the only time you really stop and think about all the poor buggers that didn’t make it,” said Jackson, a…
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Shirley Wishlove was just five years old when her older brother enlisted to fight in the Korean War. It was June 1950, when Leslie Strachan left Kelowna to join the military effort to keep North Korea from militarily overtaking…
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With Remembrance Day less than a week away, London, Ont., has been preparing with plans for a ceremony, parade and an ongoing poppy campaign. The annual campaign, launched in late October by the Royal Canadian Legion, has been “off…
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For a ninth year in a row, people young and old gathered Saturday at Heroes Park in Beaconsfield, Que., for the annual ceremony in honour of Remembrance Day. Cadets, scouts, veterans, politicians, and civilians were all on hand for…
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