Tag: Remembrance Day
The Italian Campaign / La campagne d’Italie
The Italian Campaign was an important military effort for Canada during the Second World War. More than 93,000 Canadians took part in...
CFB Borden/MPGTG Command Team statement on Remembrance Day / BFC Borden/déclaration de l’Équipe de...
Over one hundred years ago, CFB Borden was founded to train the soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force heading towards the battlefields...
Local war vet remembered / Le sacrifice d’un ancien combattant de la région ...
David “Dave” Robert Arksey was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1921. He finished high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate in 1940 and...
Proudly walking in the steps of our ancestors / Fiers de marcher sur les...
Over a century ago, Camp Borden was a sea of tents, mud and drilling soldiers, while the fragile canvas biplanes of...
The poppy’s roots lie deeper than the First World War / Un symbole bien...
How the red flower grew to become the symbol it is today
The poppy’s story is one of...
Honouring the lost with the ones we love: how to have a family-friendly Remembrance...
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians of every age are encouraged to pay a moment...
Remembrance exhibits at Base Borden Military Museum / Expositions du Souvenir au Musée...
The Base Borden Military Museum received two artistic donations to display in honour of Remembrance Day this year — both of which...
Remembrance Day Sentry Program participants honoured with ceremonial duty / Programme des sentinelles...
Six Canadian Armed Forces members and one member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) received the distinction of being selected from...
Why wear a Poppy before and on Remembrance Day? / Pourquoi porter un coquelicot...
We see Poppies everywhere prior to Remembrance Day; on the lapels of soldiers uniforms and other articles of clothing that prominently display...
The Poppy Campaign has arrived! / La campagne du coquelicot est arrivée!
Every year, from the last Friday of October to 11 November, tens of millions of Canadians wear a Poppy as a visual...