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Category: Remembrance Day


Remembrance Day 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how we pay tribute this year to veterans past and present. It hasn’t diminished the significance of November 11th to Canadians and others around the globe, and our desire to honour those who served. Across…

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Remember

A thought on this Remembrance Day, with some September 2018 images from Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario … IN FLANDERS FIELDS We are the dead: Short days ago,We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved: and…

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We Remember: The 11th Hour on the 11th Day of the 11th Month

Canadians of all ages gathered at Vancouver’s Victory Square once again yesterday, just across the street from the Dominion Trust Building, below. There wasn’t  merely diversity of ages. In addition to the usual cast of politicians, there were people of all…

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