Their Dedication, Our Freedom - Remembrance Day 2024 🇨🇦

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Remembrance Day is a significant part of Canadian national identity and a time for reflection and gratitude. Both Canada and the US fought side-by-side in the major world wars, and Remembrance Day originated with the armistice that ended WWI. Remembrance Day honors the shared values of courage, duty, and sacrifice that both countries hold dear.

The poppy became a symbol of Remembrance Day in Canada due to it's connection with the poem, "In Flanders Fields", written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.

While the US has Memorial Day (honoring those who died in military service), Remembrance Day in Canada honors all who have served, past and present, in times of war and peace.

Thank you for taking a moment to watch, honour and remember.