UPDATED: Canadians gather to mark Remembrance Day at ceremonies across the country
Dozens of veterans and active Armed Forces members marched through the streets of Ottawa to drums and pipes amid unseasonably warm temperatures before taking up positions in front of the National War Memorial, where the national ceremony is being held.
Candy Greff, this year's Silver Cross Mother, has also arrived. Greff's son Byron was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2011, the last of 158 Canadian soldiers who died during the war. Hundreds of people have also gathered in front of Halifax City Hall on a warm and sunny day to honour Canada's war dead.
Babies in strollers, dogs on leashes and children holding parents' hands watched the solemn ceremony under partly sunny skies. A few children giggled and held their parents' hands tighter when the first gun salute went off. “ landed at D-Day, I'm very proud of him” said Stark. “My uncle served in Italy for the Black Watch and he was killed just outside Monte Cassino. And that's why I was over there laying a wreath in his memory.”
“We're here to pay homage to our fallen and missing comrades, and there are a lot of them,” said retired Lt.-Col. Henry Hall.
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