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In one of the most beautiful settings in Ottawa, Green Island, eight military memorials can be found, far too rarely seen by visitors. This free, short walking tour will introduce you to them. They include: -National Artillery Memorial -Remember Flanders (John McCrae) -Ottawa Memorial to the Commonwealth Air Forces -McKenzie-Papineau Memorial -Defence of Hong Kong Memorial -Chemical Warfare Volunteers Plaque -International Peace Garden -CANLOAN Memorial The tour will be led by Rob Collins, BA History from uOttawa and a Volunteer Interpreter at the Canadian War Museum.

Remembrance Day is a special moment in the calendar to pause and reflect on the meaning of this day. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is proud to bring you a day of engaging activities for all ages on this important theme.

Join us to:

  • Meet LAC subject experts and explore related archival and published collections;
  • See how historical records held at LAC are being used to effect real change in our communities;
  • Visit the research spaces;
  • Make a craft; and
  • Shop the Friends of LAC book sale. 

 

Join Toronto Embroidery on Saturday, November 9th, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, for a special Remembrance Day event. We are offering free poppy embroidery on any item you bring or purchase from our store. Honor our veterans with a poppy, and skip the line for regular-priced services. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Royal Canadian Legion. Visit to participate and show your support.

The 7th Toronto Regiment, RCA & HMCS YORK Bands invite you to a massed band concert featuring over 50 fantastic army and navy musicians.

The band will commemorate the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Centennial as well as Indigenous Veterans Day, featuring favourite works from Copland, Hazo, and Sibelius.

Doors open at 6:30 pm

Concert begins at 7:30 pm

Free admission, although a donation to the St. James Cathedral is welcome. You can make a tax deductible donation at the following link: 

On Indigenous Veterans Day, the City plans to honour those brave individuals who served through the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, peacekeeping missions around the world, and who continue to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces, in a ceremony that will include traditional ways of honouring warriors from First Nations, Métis, Inuit, as well as non-status Indigenous veterans who served.

Led by Grandmother Vivian Recollet and in the presence of the Toronto Council Fire Eagle Staff, the ceremony will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Toronto City Hall.

The Pillar Society will continue its tradition at the CSIS National Memorial Cemetery of commemorating and remembering all those who served Canada at home and abroad in the Canadian military or in civilian roles.

We pay tribute to those who have made personal contributions involving commitment, hardship and sacrifice, and we remember in particular the tens of thousands of Canadians who paid the ultimate price in the First and Second World Wars, in Korea, in Afghanistan and in dozens of peacekeeping missions over the past 100 years.

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