November 8th, 2021
Dear Parents, Students and Staff;
Remembrance Day is this Thursday Nov 11, 2021, and although we won’t be able to assemble here at the school to honour and remember our fallen together in person, we can still learn about reflect on the impact of wars of the past and conflicts of the present and the promise of peace laid forward by those who already sacrificed their lives for our future and that of 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 going to be posting student created remembrances on the school’s social media accounts and Google classrooms so make sure you access those which will be posted later this week!
To learn more and celebrate this Remembrance Day please join us in viewing the Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa provided by the Royal Canadian Legion
Families and students may alternatively choose to observe some of the local Remembrance Day events that are being planned.
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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