By Staff
November 2, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
The Remembrance Day Service at 11 a.m. is in-person and will also be broadcast online. Everyone is welcome to attend the events.
Burl-Oak Naval Veterans Remembrance Day Service, 9 a.m.
This 30-minute ceremony takes place at the Naval Ships Memorial Monument in Spencer Smith Park. For more information, contact the Burl-Oak Veterans at 905-318-0236 or visit burloaknavalveterans.org.
Remembrance Day Procession, 10:30 a.m.
The procession will begin at Central School on Baldwin Street, travelling down Brant Street to Elgin Street, Locust Street, Ontario Street and ending at the Cenotaph in Veteran Square, 426 Brant St.
The streets noted above will be closed from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60, Remembrance Day Service, 11 a.m.
This 45-60-minute ceremony will be held at the Cenotaph in Veteran Square, on the north side of City Hall and will be live-streamed for those who cannot physically attend.
The ceremony will include a colour guard, two minutes of silence, music performed by some members of the Burlington Teen Tour Band, reading of In Flanders Fields along with the laying of the wreaths.
For more information or to access the live-stream link, please visit Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 website burlingtonlegion.com.
The photo graph below is of troops marching four abreast from Niagara to different parts of the province. It came from an article in the Historical Society Newsletter. Close to 10,000 men made the march – some went as far as Toronto.
The Thirty-Seventh regiment of about twelve hundred men left Niagara Camp on Monday, October 25, 1915 and passed though Nelson Township at noon on Thursday, October 28. Apparently they were tired and down-hearted. On Friday, October 29 the Fifty-Eighth Regiment of eleven hundred and sixty men, an educated, refined, well-trained battalion, with an excellent band, passed here. On Saturday, October 29 the Seventy-Fourth Battalion of more than eleven hundred men marched through. On November 1, the Seventy Fifth Battalion of more than a thousand, the majority elderly men, passed. On November 2 the Artillery of the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Fortieth Battalions of nearly nine hundred men passed. These were accompanied by bodies of September’s Recruits and a Company of Highlanders. November 3, the Eighty Third Battalion, consisting of about eleven hundred men passed. Rain delayed all the soldiers on Thursday, November 4. November 5 about a thousand of the Ninety-Second Highlanders and some of the Forty Eighth passed. We had more music that day. November 6th the Eighty-First Battalion of twelve hundred men passed. Monday, November 8, the Eighty-Fourth Battalion was divided in Hamilton and only 400 went to Toronto. The Eighty-Sixth Battalion came to Hamilton to winter there. Wednesday November 10 a train load of about twelve hundred went to Orillia.
