At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month Legions across the Cariboo will hold their Remembrance Day Ceremonies.
“The parade will form up around 10:30 tomorrow morning then march on the colors at 10:35,” Doug Carey, President of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Quesnel said, “at twenty to eleven the parade begins marching and we’ll arrive at the cenotaph at about two minutes to eleven. We’ll begin with Oh Canada followed by the Last Post then the United Church will do its bell ringing followed by two minutes of silence.”
Carey said a piper will do a lament then the flags go up followed shortly after by the laying of the wreaths.
“The Youth Choir will be singing In Flanders Fields and we’ll close off that part of the ceremony with God Save the King and the church service will begin at St Andrews at noon and everyone is welcome. Then the parade marches off past the reviewing stand which will be out the front door of the Legion with some older veterans taking the salute then once they go by the parade gets dismissed and everyone is welcomed inside,” Carey said.
In Williams Lake 50-year member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 139 Vivian McNeill said Remembrance Day Ceremonies begin around 9:45 tomorrow morning with a service at the Gibraltar Room.
From there McNeill said they’ll march to the cenotaph at City Hall for the outdoor service and then lay the wreaths.
In 100 Mile House a parade up Birch Avenue will begin at 10:15 to the service at the Community Hall followed by an open house at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 260.
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