Remembrance Day ceremonies across Ottawa and eastern Ontario

Remembrance Day takes place on Friday, Nov. 11. 

For the first time since 2019, Remembrance Day ceremonies across Ottawa and eastern Ontario are taking place in person. 

“The over arching purpose of Remembrance Day is a time for remembrance, honour and respect,” said Steven Clark, the national executive director of the Royal Canadian Legion on Wake Up With Rob Snow on Nov. 10. “When people attend Remembrance Day ceremonies, they do so to remember all who have fallen in the military service of Canada but they also have individual reasons why. They may have a personal connection and it's there personal expression of remembrance why they go to ceremonies.”

Ottawa ceremonies

National War Memorial

The National Remembrance Day ceremony is scheduled at the National War Memorial.

This year's ceremony will include a full grand Veterans' Parade and a fly-past.

The Royal Canadian legion is broadcasting the ceremony on its website. 

Beechwood Cemetery

Military members of the National Capital Region and their families and friends are invited to observe the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the National Military Cemetery of the Canadian Forces.

The Remembrance Day ceremony at the National Military Cemetery of the Canadian Forces begins at 10:30 a.m.

More information can be found here.  

Canadian War Museum

At exactly 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, sunlight enters through a single window in Memorial Hall, illuminating the headstone of Canada’s Unknown Soldier.

For more information, visit here. 

Barrhaven

The Barrhaven Legion is hosting its Remembrance Day ceremony at John McCrae Secondary School which begins at 10:45 a.m.

Following the ceremony, the Barrhaven Legion will be hosting a reception in halls A and B of the Walter Baker Centre. Everyone is welcome.

More information can be found here. 

Greely

The Greely and District Legion Branch hosts its Remembrance Day ceremony at the Legion Hall on Mitch Owens Road and begins at 10:45 a.m. 

More information can be found here. 

Kanata

The Kanata Legion hosts its Remembrance Day ceremony at Village Green Memorial Park in Kanata North with a parade beginning at 10: 45 a.m. 

The Kanata Cenotaph is located in Colchester Square. 

There is a service after the ceremony at the hall of the Kanata Legion. 

Visit here for information. 

Manotick

The Manotick Legion is hosting its ceremony with a parade leaving the branch at 10 a.m., and the service will take place at the Cenotaph beside the Mill on Dickinson Street, according to the website. 

A service follows the ceremony at the Legion hall. 

Orléans

The Royal Canadian Legion hosts its service which begins at 10:30 a.m.

More information can be found here

Richmond

Richmond Legion Remembrance service is taking place at the Richmond Memorial Park on the corner of Perth and McBean Streets.

More information can be found here. 

Stittsville

The ceremony will begin at Warner-Colpitts Lane at 2 p.m. and will be followed by the service at the Stittsville Cenotaph.

Vanier

The Royal Canadian Legion Eastview Branch 462 is hosting a ceremony with a parade at the branch on Cyr Avenue in Vanier at 1:30 p.m. and march to the Cenotaph for a 2 p.m. service.

Click here for more information. 

Westboro

The first branch ceremony takes place at the Carlingwood Shopping Centre at 11 a.m. and the service and wreath-laying ceremony at the Westboro Cenotaph begins at 2 p.m. The parade from and back to our branch returns this year, with veterans, cadets, the Ottawa Fire Services Band and others leaving the branch at 1:45.

More information can be found here. 

Eastern Ontario ceremonies

Almonte

The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. at the Cenotaph on Bride Street followed by a reception at the Almonte Legion branch. 

Visit here for more information. 

Brockville

Dignitaries and service members meet at 10:30 in front of city hall with a procession to the Brockville Cenotaph where the outdoor ceremony will begin at the Court House Ave. Cenotaph.

Visit here for more information. 

Carleton Place

The parade will form up on Mill Street at Bridge Street in front of the Town Hall at 10:15 a.m. and march off at 10:30 a.m. The parade will march from Mill Street along Bridge Street to Veterans Way in front of the Cenotaph. The Ceremony will begin in Memorial Park at 10:50 a.m.

The parade will be led by the local Captain A. Roy Brown Branch 192 Legion Colour Party with Branch Sgt-At-Arms Barry Pascoe leading them. The parade itself will be led by Parade Commander, Peter Schaffer, President of Branch 192. We will once again have a contingent of military personnel from Base Petawawa included in our parade.

More information can be found here. 

Kingston

The city’s 2022 Civic Ceremony will be in French and English, and an ASL interpreter will be present.

• 9:15 a.m. Community Wreath Laying Ceremony
• 10:15 a.m. Veterans and Military Groups Wreath Laying Ceremony
• 10:45 a.m. The Civic Ceremony

For more information, visit here. 

Merrickville

Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held this year at the Cenotaph. The Merrickville Legion will host a potluck lunch following the ceremony and ask that you bring something to share. 

Visit here for more information. 

Pembroke

Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held at the Pembroke Street Cenotaph starting at 11 a.m. The parade will leave the Pembroke Legion main parking lot at 10.45 a.m. travelling west on Pembroke street. 

There is a service at the Legion branch after the ceremony. 

Visit here for more information. 

Perth

A Remembrance Day service will take place at the Memorial Gates in front of the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital. 

The parade will begin at the Perth Legion branch 244 at 10:15 a.m. It will continue to the Memorial Gates at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital on Drummond Street, arriving at 10:35 a.m.

The service will begin at 10:45 a.m. Participants will march back to the Legion hall on Beckwith Street.

Renfrew

The march from the Legion at the Cenotaph for a brief Remembrance Day service will start at 11 a.m. followed by soup and sandwiches back at the branch. 

Click here for more information. 

Listen to the full interview with Steven Clark below: