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Remembrance Day in Canada

History tells us that at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month in 1918, the guns finally silent after four years of conflict which saw the carnage of 18 million people.  Here in Montreal under cold and leaden skies, Remembrance Day ceremonies offered a poignant reminder of Canada's sacrifice
during the Great War.

As part of the British Empire effort, Canada sent 600,000 troops to Europe of which 60,000 would die during WWI.
 
In Flanders Fields the poignant poem written by Canadian John McCrea, stands as a silent but somber
testament to the Killing fields of the First World War; "In Flanders Fields where poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row...

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