Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/11/2026
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Location
Markham Veterans Square and Cenotaph
Categories
2026 Remembrance Day – November 11
The formal ceremony will be held Saturday November 7th at the Markham Cenotaph.
Please be advised, that there is no official ceremony at the Markham Cenotaph on November 11 although we encourage you to come out, pause and honour those that made the ultimate sacrifice.
Please pause for a moment of silent at 11:00am.
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.
