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The National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa

On November 11th each year, Canadians stand in collective Remembrance of all who have fallen in the military service of their country.

The Legion, on behalf of the people of Canada, organizes and conducts the National Remembrance Day service in Ottawa.

Remembrance Day 2019 Tomb of Unknown Soldier

2020 National Remembrance Day Ceremony Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way the Legion will run Remembrance Day Ceremonies in 2020. The National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa will continue although modified to meet local health guidelines.

For the first time, spectators will be discouraged from attending in person, due to the limited space and requirement to physically distance. Learn more about the anticipated changes.

Watch the Ceremony on TV or online

CBC, CTV and Global will broadcast the Ceremony live on TV
Watch the Ceremony live on the Royal Canadian Legion's Facebook page

Ceremony Program Schedule

Ceremony starts at approximately 10:45 am.

- Arrival of Dignitaries
- O Canada
- Last Post
- (11:00 am) Two Minutes of Silence
- Lament
- Rouse
- Act of Remembrance
- Prayers
- Placing of Wreaths
- Benediction
- God Save the Queen
- Dignitaries depart and ceremony concludes

Looking up to the sky

In partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada, The Royal Canadian Legion has arranged a fly-past of three heritage planes that were essential aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the Second World War. Read more

North American Harvard

Road Closures

To ensure social distancing, the City of Ottawa will restrict road and pedestrian access around the National War Memorial before and during the ceremony.

Participate in the Act of Remembrance

While in-person attendance at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony is discouraged this year due to the pandemic, there are many ways Canadians can take a moment on November 11th to honour and thank all who served, and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today.

Watch the Ceremony Live

On November 11, starting at 10:45 am, watch the National Remembrance Day Ceremony live on the Legion’s Facebook page. Watch on Facebook…

Observe 2 Minutes of Silence

On November 11 at 11:00 am, join millions of Canadians in observing two minutes of silence to honour, remember and thank all who served and sacrificed. Remember…

Honour our Veterans

Remembrance initiatives remind us to take time to honour those who have dedicated their lives to serve our nation. Explore…

Youth and Remembrance

Family and student activities to do on Remembrance Day. Check them out.…

In honour of those who served and in memory of those who fell

Thank you to the individuals and organizations who purchased a wreath to honour the Fallen at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony. Lest We Forget wreaths will fill the National War Memorial - a visual tribute to honour Canada's Veterans, and a reminder that we will 'never forget'.

2317 - 30th Field Artillery Regiment RCACC
414 EWS Squadron Ottawa
Abbigail Cowbrough from Shewchuk Family
Access and Countermeasures Division (INS), Global Affairs Canada
Adhartas - Don & Kim
Agriculture Canada
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jammat Canada - #MuslimsForRemembrance
Air Canada
Airborne Regt. Assoc. of Canada
Alec Salahor - RCAF, Salvatore D'ermo - Black Watch
Algonquin College
Allyson James
Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia
Amica Bayview Village Residents
Amica Dundas
Andrea & Peter Dukelow
ANL Metering Services Inc.
Apostolic Nunciature in Canada - Holy See
Apple Inc.
Arbique & Ahde, Lawyers
Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary School
Army Cadet League Canada / Ligue Cadets D'armee
Assembly of First Nations
Atu 279 Remembers
Bangladesh High Commission
Barnes Sammon LLP
Bay Brokerage Inc
Bayshore Healthcare
Belgium Belgique
Ben Sabic / Ben Sabic Foundation
Bev & Owen Taylor
Bosna I Hercegovina
Brantley Walker
Brawn Family (Brandon MB, San Jose CA)
British Home Children and Their Descendants
Bruce & Heather Wilbee
BSO Legion OSI - For Those Changed Forever
Bud Lacroix RCAF WWII
CADSI
Camping friends from Bayview Lodge, White Lake
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists
Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Corps of Commissionaires
Canadian Forces Morale & Welfare Services / Services de bien-etre et moral des Forces canadiennes
Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment
Canadian Joint Operations Command Comptroller Branch
Canadian Nurses Association / Association des infirmières et infirmiers du Canada
Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association
Canadian Red Cross
Canadian's Engineers / Les Ingenieurs du Canada
Candel ICCS Association Vietnam 1973
Cannon/Kerr/Moyer Families
CAPSJ Consulting Limited in memory of John & Bunny Pond & Ken Stewart
Caskie Family
Catherine Casserly & Dr. Bruce Hutchinson
CBSA/ASFC - We Remember / Nous Nous Souvenons
CDN Assoc Former Parl. / Assoc Cdn Ex-Parl.
CDN Association of Vets in UN Peacekeeping
CDN Medical Association Médicale Canadienne
CDN Teachers' Federation / Féd. Can. Enseignants/Es
Cecil M Reid and Ruby Brisson
Chartwell Terrace on the Square
Cherilyn & Gary Spraakman
Chris Selensky
Citadel Canine (Ottawa Chapter)
City of Kitchener
Clark Premiere Properties
Clarke/Hawman
Commission des Champs de Bataille Nationaux NBC
Commonwealth of Australia
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Cpl. Leona MacEachern CD
CPO1 George.W Casswell, CD, RCN
Craig & Erin Bowditch
Craig Peleshok & family
Crista-lynn Ferguson and Ian Mitchell
CUPE/SCFP
D. Arbour
Darlene Blair & Bruce Wright
Defence Construction CDA / Construction de Défense
Dementia Justice Canada
Denmark
Dennis James
Department of National Defence - Future Fighter Capability Project Team |Ministère de la Défense nationale / Équipe du Project de capacités futures d’avions de chasse
Downer Family
Drapeau Family
Durham Regional Police Association
Ecole secondaire catholique de Casselman
Electrical Contractors Association of Ottawa
Embassy of Bulgaria
Embassy of Chile
Embassy of Colombia
Embassy of Ecuador
Embassy of Ethiopia - You Will Always Be Remembered
Embassy of Finland
Embassy of Guatemala - Lest We Forget
Embassy of Hungary
Embassy of Israel in Canada
Embassy of Japan - Lest We Forget
Embassy of Jordan
Embassy of Lebanon
Embassy of Mexico
Embassy of Nicaragua Shows Their Respect
Embassy of North Macedonia
Embassy of Paraguay to Canada - Lest We Forget
Embassy of Peru - Lest We Forget
Embassy of Russian Federation - To Russian and Canadian Heroes Of WWI And WWII
Embassy of Slovenia
Embassy of Spain
Embassy of the Czech Republic
Embassy of the Hellenic Republic
Embassy of the Republic Of Austria
Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo
Embassy of the State of Kuwait
Embassy of Togo Republic-Canada
Embassy of Turkey
Embassy of Yemen - To Fallen Heroes
Eric Roud - Tom Paton
Ernst & Young LLP
Estonia
ESU Room 113 Bickford Centre TDSB
European Union
Family of James Lewthwaite (Veteran) - Redvers, SK
Father Keith Wallace and Parishes past
Fathers of Canada / Les Peres du Canada
Fernand Leo Jolicoeur, RCAF 428 Squadron
First Memorial Funeral Services
First Nation Veterans
Frank A & Christine B
Frank Docherty, Lifetime Member RCL Branch 609
FWIC/WI Canada - For Home And Country
G. Vincent Clark, UN Peacekeeper
Gail & Bob Blake
Gary & Vickie Paradis

George Mannoly and Lynus Forbes
Gerald Ross
Glebe Montessori School
Govan - Sisk Family
Governors Walk Retirement Residence
Grant Southon
Guy & Deborah Desroches
Hamilton Municipal Cemeteries
Harbour Landing Village - Regina, SK S4W 0N1
Heather Dube
Helen Rosseau & Tom Scott
Helena & Chuck Prockiw, in memory of Walter Prockiw, 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron RCAF
High Commission of Guyana
High Commission St Kitts & Nevis - In Recognition of the Sacrifice of Fallen Heroes
Hilton Garden Inn & Homewood Suites Ottawa Downtown
Hommages de La Suisse
Honouring Canada's Black and West Indian Veterans
Horizant
Hubert Gourdeau
Hunt Chauhan Family
IAFF Int. Assoc. Fire Fighters - Never Forget
Iceland
In honour and memory of James Alexander Wesley
In honour of Bert and Patricia Swanson
In honour of Charles Alfred Laight
In honour of Gabriel Joseph Hickey CSM 1939-1945
In honour of Guy Rousseau, Second World War Veteran
In loving memory of Herbert Bailey
In loving memory of Malcolm Tasker, RCAF
In Memoriam for Folkersen, F/O Victor, F/O Norman, and Flt Sgt. Brock
In Memoriam of Gloria MacLeod; military daughter, wife, mother and proud supporter
In Memoriam: Navy vet John Del Villano
In memory of Al Gunn
In memory of Alfred & Carmen St-Arnaud
In memory of Angus Raphael Lunny, WWII Veteran
In memory of Arthur Parsons - Korea
In memory of Brigadier William Cameron Murphy, Commander, First Canadian Armoured Brigade 1944 - 1945
In memory of Bruce Edmonds, Second World War Veteran (Royal Navy - Newfoundland)
In memory of Captain DL McCullough
In memory of Charles Norman Dale
In memory of Col. Geoff Parker (Kabul Afghanistan - May 18, 2010)
In memory of Eric Ellis
In memory of Frederick Shepherd, Killed in Action, April 17, 1945, Sneek, Netherlands
In memory of Jeffrey Copley
In memory of John Downing, Korean War Veteran
In memory of John Symmers, Alexander Symmers, Finlay Symmers, Robert Symmers, Richard Symmers
In memory of Lloyd J. Simpson
In memory of Louis C. Boileau, RCAF, Second World War Veteran
In memory of Lt. Alfred J. Smith, CD
In memory of Mary M. Baillie & Clarence S. Lamb
In memory of Melvin Leask (RCAF Flight Lieutenant, DFC)
In memory of my father Wendell Snyder (RCEME) and husband Jim Walker (RCE)
In memory of Noe Beauchesne, WW2 RCAF Bomber Command
In memory of Private Clifford Harvey Wood
In memory of Sgt Eric Redmond, RCSigs and all those of the C&E Branch who have passed on. May their dedication to the service of their country not be forgotten. Donated by the Redmond and Cooper families
In memory of veteran Bentley "Bill" Horton
Indigenous Nurses - Honour Your Services to Our Ways
Iode Canada
IODE Ottawa Municipal
Isabelle Daoust, National Defence Corporate Secretary
Isla and Thomas Stulp
Italia
Jamaican High Commission
James E Finnie
Jamieson Family
Jane and Cam Haddow
Janice Bateson & Art Slingsby
Jean-Conrad Roy
Jen Hill, Linda Gallagher Johnston, Sherry Sharpe, Izzy Adams
Jewitt Mcluckie and Associate LLP
Jockvale Elementary School
John & Lisa Sattler and Family
John and Susan Bahen
John Houston of Orleans
John Lundy (father), Bill Lundy and Vince Lundy (his brothers)
John Robert Stewart & Family
Joseph and Nellie Kellner
Judy, Jeff, Jamie & Megan Eddy
Karen McCrimmon MP Kanata-Carleton
Kate's Vets
Ken & Susan Molnar
Kinaxis Inc.
Kyle and Salma
La famille Ducharme
LAC Walter, O.M. Palmer, RCAF (1942-1945)
Lachance Family
Lansdowne Technologies Inc/Shipley Canada
LCdr & SLt(N/S) Whiteley (Retd)
LCdr Paul Seguna, RCN (Ret'd) & Eva Eaton
Lcol WAD Erickson (retired)
Le Gabon Se Souvient
Lest We Forget-NCC / N'oublions Jamais-CCN
LGBTQ2+ CAF/DND Community Defence Team Pride-NCR
Liberal Party of Canada / Parti Libéral du Canada
Lieutenant William Wallace Givens
Linda & Jamie Manzer
Linda & Ron Kubelka
LNAK-Latvian National Federation in Canada
Louis Mousseau
Lt Col William Gerald Hamilton
Luxembourg
Lysyk Family
MacKay / Robertshaw
Major Allan Peterson, MC
Mark Held and Gorana Botic
Marlene & Bruce Patrick
Mary Tait & Bill Sirett
Mattocks Family
Max Lysyk & Marissa Ford
Mccabe Family
McClymont, Andrea & Troy
McNabb-Chiu
Mergel Family
Métis Nation of Ontario
Métis National Council
Michael & Julie More
Michael Mitchell and Diana O'Connor
Microsoft Canada
Mike & LuAnn Watt
Mindwire Systems Ltd.
Mrs. Joan Howell
MWO (Retired) J MacKay and Maj L MacKay
Myra & Sam Krane
National Air Cadet League of Canada
National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC)
National Council of the Catholic Women's League

Naval Association Canada / Association Navale Canada
Navy League of Canada / La Ligue Navale du Canada
New Zealand
Norway Remembers
Nursing Sister's Association of Canada
NWAC - Lest We Forget
OCdt. Jimmy H. Birtwell
Odessa & District Lions Club
Ombudsman DND-CAF/MDN-FAC
On behalf of the O'Connell & Choquette families
Ontario Prof Fire Fighters Association - Never Forget
Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
Ottawa Craft Group
Ottawa Fire Services
Ottawa Liberal Caucus / Caucus libéral d'Ottawa
Ottawa Paramedic Service / Service Paramédic D'Ottawa
Ottawa Police Veterans Association
Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Assoc. / South Grenville Bluegrass Festival
Our fathers: Stuart Richardson and Robert Goulet
P/O Hugh N. McLeod, F/S George E. Armstrong, F/S Edward L. Armstrong
PAFSO / APASE
Palestinian General Delegation
Patricia Flood / Pierre Lemieux
Paul & Julia Gregoire & Family
People of the Netherlands
Persian Gulf Veterans of Canada
Pignat Family
Pleasance Simser & Jim Birnie
PRVHC - Staff Association
Pte William henry Brignall 1916, Cpl Anthony Joseph Boneca 2006
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Service Alliance of Canada
RA-Centre
Randolph Benwell
RCAF Association De Larc - Per Ardua Ad Astra
RCL 641 Bartenders
RCMP - GRC
RCMP Veterans' Associations
Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Remembering Wilbert Rogers
Remembrance Day 2020 - Embassy of Portugal
Republic of Albania - Lest We Forget
Republic of Korea
Republique Algerienne Democratique et Populaire
République Française
Robert & Edie Sauve
Robichaud Family
Roderick McMillan, RCAF
Roland Vaillancourt/Doreen Gobby, Martin and Karen Foubert
Ron Crook & Camille Cockerton
Rosemere Families / Familles de Rosemere
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada / Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada
Royal Commonwealth Society of Ottawa
Royal Thai Embassy
Rwanda High Commission in Canada
Sarah and Thommy Quinn
Shirley Family
Sir Thomas Cheetham
Sir Winston Churchill SOC - We Shall Never Surrender
Slavom Ovencanim Precima-Amb.Srbije
Sloan - Fried
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic Secondary School
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School Council, Georgetown, Ontario
Steven Del Duca
Stuart & Michele Attwood
Submariners Association of Canada Central Branch
Susan and Gary Pittman and Family
Tanya Dumas & Derrick Paul
TeamOneHomes
Teskey-Cartright-Keeley Real Estate
The Army Navy & Air Force Veterans in Canada
The Bahamas High Commission
The Banks and Dunn families
The Binette-Madeley family (in loving memory of Herman Burke and Edmund Binette)
The Black Watch of Canada Assn Upper Canada Branch
The Blair Family
The Bramble & Brown Families
The Brett Family
The Brown Family
The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR)
The Card Family
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
The Cheverie Family
The Company of Master Mariners of Canada
The Cranley - Kelly Families
The Embassy of Nepal
The Erwin Family - Calgary
The Family of Donald MacKenzie
The Federal Republic of Germany
The Fraser Family
The Halpern & Isber Families
The Hambly Family
The Johnston Family
The Lepine family
The Malone - Bianconi Family
The Netherlands / Les Pays-Bas
The O'Brien Family
The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hopital D'Ottawa
The Polish Commbatants' Association in Canada Inc
The Professional Institute / L'institut Professionel
The Ranacher Family
The Salvation Army - Lest We Forget
The SCA Honours Our War Artists
The Sterne Family in Honour of Brigadier General Harry W. Sterne
The Stokes Family
The Sulley Family
The Thompson Family
The Timlin Family
The Vets Kids - Carlington - Ottawa
The Wallen Family
The War Amps / Les Amputés De Guerre
Thomas Goldie
Tweed Family
Ukrainian Canadian Congress
Ukrainian Canadian Prof. & Business Assoc. Ottawa
Union National Defence / Union Défence Nationale
Unit 2CER Operation Athena Afghanistan
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Valleyview Home Veterans
Vétéran LGBTQ2+ Veteran
Veterans Ombudsman / Ombudsman Des Vétérans
Veterans Review and Appeal Board / Tribunal des anciens combattants (révision et appel)
WBM Technologies Inc.
Wendy L. Warren in memory of The Warren Twins, WWII Spitfire Pilots
Wilmot Creek Homeowners' Association
With much gratitude, The Best, Sheppard & Hartford Families