Tag Archives: Remembrance Day

Blowy and snowy, the parade made its way down Broadway Avenue, Mission and Magpie Road to the Cenotaph. All the while they were piped by Scott McGillvary and escorted by officers from the Superior East Ontario Provincial Police Detachment.   There at Centoaph, wreaths were laid for Canada, the Province of Ontario, Silver Cross Mother, Municipality of Wawa, Legion Branch ...

Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21st September 1914. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into ...