{"id":38734,"date":"2020-11-11T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=38734"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:45:24","slug":"remembrance-day-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/remembrance-day-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day &#8211; Online Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Premier Doug Ford, Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, and honoured guests will pay tribute to the bravery, courage and sacrifice of past and present members of the Canadian Armed Forces at Queen&#8217;s Park today beginning at 10:00 a.m. They will unveil the Memorial to Honour Canadian Heroes of the War in Afghanistan; and at 0:45 a.m. will hold the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony which will be broadcast live.<\/p>\n<p>With English closed captioning \u2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/premierofontario\">Premier&#8217;s official YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With French interpretation and closed captioning \u2015\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/GovernmentofOntarioAnnouncements\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/GovernmentofOntarioAnnouncements\">Government of Ontario YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38729\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38729\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38729\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-391x600.jpg 391w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-1001x1536.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-1334x2048.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Canadian_War_Museum_Media_Advisory___Canadian_War_Museum_to_live-scaled.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remembrance Day in Memorial Hall, Canadian War Museum. (CNW Group\/Canadian War Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Canadian War Museum<\/strong> invites Canadians from across the country and around the world to participate in one of the most moving Remembrance\u00a0Day ceremonies in <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>. On November\u00a011, at exactly 11\u00a0a.m. (EST), sunlight enters through a single window in Memorial Hall, illuminating the headstone of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"xn-person\">Unknown Soldier<\/span>. To allow as many Canadians as possible to experience this event, it will be streamed live on the War Museum&#8217;s website, Facebook page and Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>Anyone wishing to watch the livestream can visit one of the links below, beginning at 10:40\u00a0a.m.\u00a0(EST) on November\u00a011. Viewers will hear an explanation of the significance of the Hall and will be able to watch as the sunlight passes across the headstone, perfectly framing it at 11\u00a0a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2972634-1&amp;h=1215664959&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwarmuseum.ca%2Fremember&amp;a=warmuseum.ca%2Fremember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">warmuseum.ca\/remember<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2972634-1&amp;h=3702941329&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwarmuseum&amp;a=facebook.com%2Fwarmuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com\/warmuseum<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>twitter.com\/CanWarMuseum<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The livestream will remain available online until <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 16<\/span> at noon (EST).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General\u00a0and Commander-in-Chief of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>, today\u00a0released a\u00a0Remembrance Day video which\u00a0speaks of the importance of this year&#8217;s Remembrance Day,\u00a0marking\u00a0the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and which\u00a0pays tribute to the service and courage of Canadian veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The video includes touching personal accounts from veterans <span class=\"xn-person\">Elsa Lessard<\/span>, of <span class=\"xn-location\">Ottawa<\/span>, who speaks of the commemorations of this conflict and the lessons learned since 1939\u201345; Stuart Valli\u00e8res, of Montr\u00e9al, <span class=\"xn-location\">Quebec<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-person\">Norm Kirby<\/span>, of <span class=\"xn-location\">Lions Bay, British Columbia<\/span>; and <span class=\"xn-person\">Yvan Bugeaud<\/span>, of <span class=\"xn-location\">Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec<\/span>, who talk about the physical and psychological scars their participation in the war effort left on them.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_94568\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8X6gb1KgDo?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Premier Doug Ford, Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, and honoured guests will pay tribute to the bravery, courage and sacrifice of past and present members of the Canadian Armed Forces at Queen&#8217;s Park today beginning at 10:00 a.m. They will unveil the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 00:51:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38744,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38734\/revisions\/38744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}