A sombre Remembrance Day ceremony took place today around the Cenotaph at Old City Hall, 60 Queen Street West.
The City focused this year’s events around the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement that brought about the end of the Korean War. Other milestones honoured today were the 75th anniversary of Canadian participation in peacekeeping missions for the United Nations and the centennials of the Naval Reserve of Canada and HMCS York, a Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Division in Toronto.
The ceremonies began at 10:45 AM, starting with the singing of our national anthem, a reading of In Flanders Fields, a two-minute silence at 11:00, and a trumpeteer playing The Last Post:
Video of today’s ceremony at Old City Hall can be found here.
Other locations for today’s Remembrance Day ceremonies were:
- Scarborough War Memorial: 2190 Kingston Road
- East York Civic Centre – Memorial Gardens: 850 Coxwell Avenue
- York Cemetery – Cenotaph: 160 Beecroft Road
- York Civic Centre Cenotaph: 2700 Eglinton Avenue West
- Etobicoke Civic Centre – Cenotaph: 399 The West Mall
- Fort York National Historic Site: 100 Garrison Road
a very important day to remember.