Remembrance Day in Dufferin

For those on the school’s Remembrance Committee, it is a year-round education that for a few has a personal connection.

Victoria-Beacon Hill NDP MLA Carole James shed a tear during the vigil, remembering that her grandfather from England, who fought in the Second World War, took his painful stories of being a prisoner of war to the grave. His grandfather was a German prisoner for three years.

“It’s the people that really have lost priority and they’re more into profit than they are in regards to respect and honouring those that have given them the ability to have their businesses and to earn the profit and to lead a good life”. “As we commemorate Remembrance Day, one of the best ways to honour today’s veterans for their sacrifice and service, is to hire them”.

“People should know about those who made the ultimate sacrifice”, he said.

“I was lucky to have survived”, he said sitting near the war memorial before the ceremony started. “At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them”, read Len Reid, master of ceremonies, afterwards.

Following the prayer, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, laid a wreath at the foot of the War Memorial, as a children’s choir sang “In Flanders Fields”.

For Rocco Speranza, who helps organize Vincent Massey’s Remembrance Committee, says having the students participate in activities surrounding Remembrance Day and other events is meaningful.

There is a real desire among the surviving vets of the Second World War to come to this Remembrance Day Ceremony to be the storyteller, the “reminder” of why we must never forget.

Members of the legion were joined in the march by local Air and Sea Cadets and the St John’s Ambulance Badgers.

More than 77 per cent say they will observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day, and 32 per cent say they will attend a service.

Every November 11, Canadians across the country remember the courage and sacrifice of those who served during Canada’s military conflict and peacekeeping missions.

“There were a lot more members of public than past year which was a welcome surprise for the veterans”. He’s lived in Peterborough for the last 20 years and has attended the annual memorial service in Ottawa for the last eight years.

Ceremonies were held at armouries and cenotaphs across the country.

The ceremony on McGill’s campus was one of several in Montreal.