Veterans Week November 5 - 11, 2025

Honouring our Veterans

November 5 - 11 is Veterans Week

November 8 is Indigenous Veterans Day. The First Nations, Inuit and Métis people of Canada have a long and proud tradition of military service to our country.

November 11 is Remembrance Day. Ceremonies

are being held at locations across our city.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders Fields.

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields is one of the most famous poems from the First World War. Canadian doctor and soldier John McCrae wrote this poem on 3 May 1915.