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Remembrance Day, 2024

November 11, 2024 / Marvin Job / 5 Comments

Although an event like Remembrance Day is not really a cityscape per se, I feel it is extremely important to acknowledge the day.

Earlier today I attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies at Old City Hall. The sombre event was exceedingly well attended and the rain actually held off until later in the afternoon.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They were young, as we are young,
They served, giving freely of themselves.
To them, we pledge, amid the winds of time,
To carry their torch and never forget.
We will remember them.

7th Regimental Band, Royal Canadian Artillery Band, under the direction of Lieutenant Carina Lam

Aretha Phillip, Chief of Protocol, City of Toronto

A flypast by The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The flypasts were conducted during several Remembrance Day commemorations across Canada.

Remarks from the City of Toronto, presented by Mayor Olivia Chow

Benediction, given by Rev. John Joseph Mastandrea, Chaplain, Toronto Police Services

Laying poppies on the Cenotaph, end of services

Flowers and poppies on the Cenotaph, end of service

Remembrance Day 2023

November 11, 2023 / Marvin Job / 1 Comment

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: