November 10th, 2020
Remembrance Day is tomorrow, Nov 11, 2020, and although we won’t be able to assemble to honour and remember our fallen we can can still reflect on the impact of war and the promise of peace laid forward by those who sacrificed their lives for us and our children’s children.
Please take a moment to listen to SJAM’s Senior Band play O Canada to get you in the spirit. Our leadership students are also going to be posting remembrances on the school’s Instagram @SJAM_johnnymac so make sure you check that out too!
To learn more and celebrate this Remembrance Day please join us in viewing the Memory Project Remembrance Day event during which we can hear from those that bore witness to the major conflicts of the 20th Century. The memory project seeks to document the experiences of Canadian veterans before their live voices are lost to time.
Here is the event Memory Project Link . The event starts just before 10:45 am.
Observants may also view the Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa as described at the Royal Canadian Legion
Keep your eyes to the sky as The Warbirds will be doing flyovers across the Tri cities cenotaphs between 10:45 and 11:30 am.
Contributions of Canadian Veterans from the Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Communities
The histories of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) veterans are crucial to our understanding of the conflicts of the 20th century and these individuals contribution to our freedoms cannot be understated. There are lots of other resources to explore when seeking to learn more about the contributions of Indigenous Veterans visit the Remembrance page at Veterans Affairs Canada and Black Canadians in Uniform as well as Chinese Canadians. Indeed thousands of men and women, Canadians of European, Jewish, Chinese, East Indian, Arabic, and other backgrounds all risked their lives and many paid the ultimate sacrifice for the society we take for granted today. Our diversity today is a legacy of their reach to become a part of the effort to build a freer, more just society, often fighting for a country that at the time did not fully recognize their rights and citizenship as equal and which is still fighting to reconcile the inequities of the past and present.
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