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2. Pipes and Drums of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa

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   Members of the pipe band (right) parading with other pipe bands through Ottawa, November 2007. It has participated in many of the military and state functions that take place in Ottawa, including leading the marchpast on Wellington Street during the National Remembrance Day Parade. [2] [3] [4]

3. Royal Canadian Air Force Pipes and Drums - Wikipedia

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   Each year, band leads the Remembrance Day parade in Ottawa near the National War Memorial, and even provides a lone piper to play Lament during the honors ceremony. It has participated in all RCAF Presentation of Colours ceremonies, whether it be official such as the ceremony in 2017 in Toronto , as well as a symbolic presentation of the old ...

4. National War Memorial (Canada) - Wikipedia

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   Since 1940, [4] the National War Memorial is the site of the national Remembrance Day ceremony, organized every year by the Royal Canadian Legion for 11 November. Along with Canadian war veterans, the ceremony is attended by the governor general, sometimes members of the Canadian royal family, the prime minister, the Silver Cross mother, representatives of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal ...

5. Silver Cross Mother - Wikipedia

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   A Silver Cross Mother (French: Mères décorées de la Croix d’argent) is chosen each year by the Royal Canadian Legion to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on behalf of all mothers who have lost children in the service of their country.

6. Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial - Wikipedia

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   In 2003, changes to the Rules For Half-Masting the National Flag of Canada included half-masting on Police and Peace Officers' National Memorial Day. [4] The ceremony has drawn large crowds to Parliament Hill, attracting about 4,000 people in 2013. These include law enforcement officers from across the continent to honour their colleagues.

7. Ceremonial Guard (Canada) - Wikipedia

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   The Ceremonial Guard (CG; French: Garde de cérémonie) is an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the changing the guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memorial being sentried by the National Sentry Program (NSP), which is carried out by different regiments and other units in order of precedence throughout the ...

8. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Canada) - Wikipedia

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   The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (French: Tombe du Soldat Inconnu) is a tomb situated before the National War Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario.The tomb is dedicated to Canadian service members, and holds the remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during the First World War; selected from a Commonwealth War Grave near Vimy, in the vicinity where the ...

9. Canadian patriotic music - Wikipedia

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   Millard concluded that "Canada's position as a culturally peripheral nation is the key to explaining the incongruous appropriation of the Hip’s work for nationalist self-celebration." [40] "Remembrance Day" is a 1987 rock song by Bryan Adams from his album Into the Fire. While commending the work of veterans it also carried an anti-war ...