People from across Nova Scotia will gather this morning for Remembrance Day ceremonies that honor and remember those who have served.

CBC will broadcast the event live at Grand Parade in Halifax. The start is scheduled for shortly before 11 a.m.

Remembrance Day Ceremony in Halifax 2024

People will gather on November 11 at the Cenotaph in front of Halifax City Hall for a ceremony to honor and remember those who have served their country.

This year’s ceremony marks a return to downtown Halifax after the 2023 event was moved to Sullivans Pond in Dartmouth, with Grand Parade a designated encampment site amid the city’s housing crisis. The municipality closed the site to tents last winter.

Mi’kmaw elder Marlene Companion is scheduled to perform a smudging ceremony, a first for the Remembrance Day event at Grand Parade.

Jean Noël will lay a wreath in memory of his brother, Master Cpl. Kirk Bradley Noel, recipient of this year’s Memorial Cross. He served in the Navy before becoming a search and rescue technician.

Noel was killed in 2006 during a training exercise when a Cormorant helicopter crashed off the coast of Canso, Nova Scotia.

The Royal Canadian Legion has a list of ceremonies across the province and people can search for the gathering closest to them. There are nine in the Halifax Regional Municipality, eight in Cape Breton and more than a dozen in communities across the mainland.