Remembrance Day across Canada in photos
Canadians are being encouraged to stay home this morning while they mark the service and sacrifice of those who have given their lives to defend the country. The solemnity of Remembrance Day is butting up against the threat posed by COVID-19. The Royal Canadian Legion is explicitly discouraging Canadians from attending Remembrance Day ceremonies in person this year and instead asking people to watch on TV or online. The legion is promising to include many of the traditional elements of the ceremonies, such as the playing of the Last Post, the singing of In Flanders Fields, and flybys of military aircraft.
Honour guards take their positions prior to a ceremony at the National War Memorial on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters
Honour guards take their positions prior to a ceremony at the National War Memorial on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters
A worker cleans the red carpet prior to a ceremony at the National War Memorial on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters
A member of the Royal Canadian Legion sets up for Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade in Halifax.Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
Major Jamie Locke of the Salvation Army places a wreath at Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade in Halifax.Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
A veteran arrives to place a wreath at Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade in Halifax.Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
A healthcare worker places miniature Canadian Flags outside the Sunnybrook Hospital in honour of Remembrance Day in Toronto.COLE BURSTON/AFP/Getty Images
Canadian flags and a poppy on a wooden cross are seen at the grave of veteran, Sgt. W.G. Hamilton, of the 47th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, in the military section of Fraser Cemetery, in New Westminster.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
Poppies are placed on a cross at the end of Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade in Halifax.Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
Angela Reid and her husband Tom Reid, Memorial Cross recipients, head to place a wreath at Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade in Halifax. Reid’s son, Cpl. Christopher Reid, was killed while serving in Afghanistan.Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
Dignitaries attend a scaled-down Remembrance Day ceremony in Montreal.Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press
Canadian Armed Forces veterans Gabriel Larouche, from the left, Paul Giroux, Eric Dupuis and Pascal Denis salute during a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in Quebec City.Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press
Wreaths of flowers lay at the Cenotaph during Remembrance Day ceremonies in Quebec City.Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press
Silver Cross Mother Debbie Sullivan, Governor General Julie Payette, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau participate in a Remembrance day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
George McMenemy, 72, walks through the field of honour for fallen Canadian military war veterans at the Woodland Cemetery on Remembrance Day in Burlington, Ontario.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
The sun lights a headstone in the field of honour for fallen Canadian military war veterans at the Woodland Cemetery on Remembrance Day in Burlington, Ontario.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
Ninety five year old Arman Konn, salutes during the scaled down Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph by Old City Hall in Toronto.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
A Remembrance Day attendee looks up as four Harvard aircraft perform a flypast over the scaled down Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph by Old City Hall in Toronto.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
Members of the public attend the scaled down Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph by Old City Hall in Toronto.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
A snow-covered cross of poppies is attached to a grave marker in a military cemetery following a small Remembrance Day service in Calgary.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
A member of the Canadian Forces salutes at a cenotaph during a small Remembrance Day service in Calgary.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
A member of the public places flowers on a grave marker in a military cemetery following a small Remembrance Day service in Calgary.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
A poppy rests in the snow beneath a grave marker in a military cemetery following a small Remembrance Day service in Calgary.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press