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Remembrance Day: ceremonies held across the Maritimes
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Remembrance Day: ceremonies held across the Maritimes

Maritimers will stop Monday to pay tribute to those who have served and continue to serve in Canada’s armed forces on Remembrance Day.

CTV News will broadcast the service live from Halifax Grand Parade at 11 a.m. local time.

Closures

All schools and many businesses are closed throughout the region. A complete list can be found here.

Weather report

The forecast calls for temperatures generally above the season, but the day should be gloomy.

Most areas will experience showers in the morning and late afternoon, with snow showers possible in northern New Brunswick.

Southerly winds blowing up to 50 km/h are also expected.

Ceremonies

Here is a list of some of the Remembrance Day ceremonies that take place in the region:

Halifax

  • Place Grand Parade – 1841 Argyle Street – 11 a.m.
  • Point Pleasant Park – Halifax Memorial Cenotaph, Point Pleasant Park – 11 a.m.

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

The ceremony at Eastern Passage Legion #164, located at 1341 Main Rd., was moved indoors due to forecast rain. A post on the Legion’s Facebook page says the seats must be whitewashed or they will be standing room only. The ceremony will still begin at 10:55 a.m.

  • Veterans War Memorial – Sullivan’s Pond, Ochterloney Street – 10:55 a.m.
  • Cole Harbor Place – 51 Forest Hills Drive. – 11 a.m.

Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia

  • Sackville Heritage Park Cenotaph – 5 Sackville Drive – 10:45 a.m.

Windsor, Nova Scotia

  • Hants County War Memorial, 78 Thomas Street – 11 a.m.

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

  • Carmichael Park – Terrace Street – 10:30 a.m.

Sydney, Nova Scotia

  • Center 200 – 200 George Street – 10 a.m.

Fredericton

  • Provincial Cenotaph – 899 King Street – 10:30 a.m.

Moncton, New Brunswick

  • Moncton Coliseum – 377 Killam Drive – 10:30 a.m.

Saint John, New Brunswick

  • TD Station – 99 Station Street – doors open at 9 a.m.

Charlottetown

  • Great George Street and Grafton Street from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Summer side

  • Island Petroleum Energy Center – 10:45 a.m.

Silver Cross mother, Maureen Anderson, pictured next to photographs of her two sons, Sgt. Ron Anderson and Sgt. Ryan Anderson. (Sarah Plowman/CTV News)

Mother of the Silver Cross comes from New Brunswick

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon should pay tribute to him during a ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

They will be joined by this year’s Mother of the Silver Cross, Maureen Anderson, who comes from New Brunswick. Anderson’s two sons, Sgt. Ron Anderson and Sgt. Ryan Anderson, both served in Afghanistan. They both died after battling post-traumatic stress disorder.

Maureen Anderson will represent the mothers left behind by soldiers killed in the line of duty.

The CTV News Remembrance Day special will air live online at 11 a.m. ET.

Flypasts across Atlantic Canada

Royal Canadian Air Force (ARC) has planned flypasts at 17 locations in Atlantic Canada.

RCAF helicopters are expected to fly low over the ceremonies in McAdam, New Brunswick, and Happy Valley-Goose Bay in central Labrador.

Helicopters and fixed-wing planes will fly over 15 communities across Nova Scotia.

Some of these communities include Halifax, Dartmouth, Bridgewater, Chester, Lunenburg and Mahone Bay.

Halifax Light Show

THE Halifax Downtown Business Commission says a Remembrance Day light show will be projected on the Old Halifax Memorial Library from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday.

Election campaign in Nova Scotia suspended

Nova Scotia’s three main political parties will not campaign Monday as they celebrate the holiday.

With files from The Canadian Press.