The sound of boots hitting the pavement echoed through Queen Street as hundreds of soldiers, veterans, officers and pipers marched to Fredericton’s Cenotaph. Frederictonians lined the streets as made their way along the green to pay tribute to those who fell while serving under the Canadian flag, and those who were fortunate enough to come [...]
Despite the pouring rain men, women, and children gathered around the Cenotaph in downtown Fredericton to remember and honour Canada’s soldiers who fought and died in wars past, and present. Service men, women, and veterans from all branches of the Canadian Armed forces marched from the Carleton Street Armouries continuing down Queen Street to the Cenotaph for [...]
Last summer, an intentional fire lit by Wayne Heighton tore through the legion of military town Oromocto, leaving members and non-members without their communal place of gathering. For many, it was their second home. Patrick Parker, the president of the Oromocto Legion, said the day affected the entire community. The building had been The Legion since [...]
Members of the Oromocto Legion will spend another Remembrance Day without their gathering place. Their Legion was torched in June 2010. Karissa Donkin has the story of the member’s attempt to rebuild.
Members of the Fredericton community assembled in Veterans Park to commemerate Remembrance Day. Nathen Swain has more.
Where students normally crowd the halls at Fredericton High School, a vigil is being held for seven days. 68,000 names of soldiers who died in WWI are being projected on the wall at FHS. Gregg Peters is a history teacher at the high school, who presented this project to his grade 11 students. He explains [...]
Remembrance Day officially started at midnight. When the calendar turned over, Brandon Barton was six beers in and seeking ammo for his AA-12 automatic shotgun. A few hours before, he and some Russian ultranationalists opened fire on civilians in a Moscow airport. When the FSB rolled onto the runway in armoured trucks, Brandon paused and [...]
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