November 2019

The Candlelight Tribute for Veterans ceremony is unique in all the remembrance ceremonies in that it literally highlights the “passing of the torch” of remembrance from the veterans to the youth of Canada.  It does this by providing the veterans at the ceremony with electronic candles which they take with them to their seats and…

Veterans Week always starts with a Remembrance Ceremony in the Senate Chambers on Parliament Hill but that venue is now under renovations for the next ten years so the ceremony was held in the new home of the Senate, the Senate Building of Canada (a.k.a. the Government Conference Centre, a.k.a. the Old Train Station).  Now…