Remembrance Day Ceremonies In Parkland
Today is Remembrance Day and there will be several ceremonies marking the day here in the Parkland.
In Dauphin, Remembrance Day ceremonies begin at 10:45 at Credit Union Place, followed by the cenotaph service on Memorial Boulevard at noon.
Also today, Grandview will be holding their services at the school gym at 10:45.
In Rorketon, services will begin at 10:45 at the Lawrence Community Centre.
Archives Of Manitoba Commemorating Anniversary Of WWI
The Archives of Manitoba will commemorate the 100th anniversary
of the First World War and Remembrance Day with a public reading
today of letters written by Manitoba soldiers who served in the
First World War.
of the First World War and Remembrance Day with a public reading
today of letters written by Manitoba soldiers who served in the
First World War.
During the war, letters were the main form of communication
between soldiers and their family and friends back home.
Soldiers wrote letters from the trenches, from hospital beds and
from training barracks, sending them to family, friends and
sweethearts.
Many collections of letters from the First World War have been
donated to the Archives of Manitoba. Culture Minister Ron Lemieux
calls them a powerful record of individual soldiers' thoughts and
feelings.
Ceremonies Today At National War Memorial
Governor General David Johnston will be among many dignitaries
honouring the country's war dead today as he presides over the main
Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
honouring the country's war dead today as he presides over the main
Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
Also today, tens of thousands of school children nationwide will
recite John McCrae's 100-year-old poem ``In Flanders Fields'' as
part of an event prompted by the Vimy Foundation.
Meantime, people are gathering at memorials across Europe for
Armistice Day ceremonies to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers
killed during World War I on the 97th anniversary of the war's end.
And in the United States, today is Veterans Day.
