Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/11/2026
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Markham Veterans Square and Cenotaph
Categories
2026 Remembrance Day – Ceremony Saturday November 7th
The Markham District Veterans Association will hold ceremonies at the Markham Veterans Square & Cenotaph on Saturday, November 7th
Please join us at 9:30 a.m. for the service at the MDVA.
All members are welcome to march in the parade to the Cenotaph at 10:30 a.m.
Ceremony to follow at the Cenotaph and then light refreshments back at the club.
Come out on the ceremony date and pay tribute to those who served and those who paid supreme sacrifices for our freedom as well as to those who are continuing to serve our country.
Canadians recognise Remembrance Day, originally called Armistice Day, every November 11 at 11 a.m. It marks the end of hostilities during the First World War and an opportunity to recall all those who have served in the nation’s defence.
Armistice Day was inaugurated in 1919 throughout much of the British Empire, but on the second Monday in November.
In 1921, the Canadian Parliament passed an Armistice Day bill to observe ceremonies on the first Monday in the week of November 11, but this combined the event with the Thanksgiving Day holiday. For much of the 1920s, Canadians observed the date with little public demonstration. Veterans and their families gathered in churches and around local memorials, but observances involved few other Canadians.
In 1928, some prominent citizens, many of them veterans, pushed for greater recognition and to separate the remembrance of wartime sacrifice from the Thanksgiving holiday. In 1931, the federal government decreed that the newly named Remembrance Day would be observed on November 11 and moved Thanksgiving Day to a different date. Remembrance Day would emphasis the memory of fallen soldiers instead of the political and military events leading to victory in the First World War.
