The Royal Canadian Legion and other organizers have also worked hard to make the ceremonies more racially diverse, Vance said. Vance said that evolution has secured Remembrance Day's place as a ...

Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day – takes ... as many of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing in them. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous ...

Events and services take place around Armistice Day ... Canadian and British legions to ask for the poppy to be acknowledged as Remembrance emblem. In 1921, the Royal British Legion ordered ...

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Has the meaning of Memorial Day changed ...

Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Nanaimo, he was born in London, England, on ...