Remembrance Day 2024: Global B.C.’s special broadcast remembers

A Remembrance Day ceremonial volition beryllium held successful downtown Vancouver connected Monday and thousands of radical are expected to be and wage their respects.

Global BC’s peculiar volition aerial starting astatine 10 a.m. PT connected Global BC and BC1.

The peculiar volition beryllium hosted by Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui.

It volition besides beryllium livestreamed supra and connected the Global News YouTube account.

The Remembrance Day service, held astatine Victory Square, is the oldest continuing and yearly ceremonial successful Vancouver, according to the city.

This twelvemonth marks the 100th day arsenic it archetypal started successful 1924. It is organized by the Vancouver Remembrance Day Committee, a civic unpaid group.

The solemn ceremonial includes the Last Post, the Lament, the fly-past, the alteration of the guard, the wreath-laying, the parade of veterans, subject units, cadets, police, brass bands, and pipes and drums, and is befitting for the galore tearful backstage moments of remembrance.

Every twelvemonth much than 15,000 participants and citizens be the ceremony, the metropolis says.

Aside from the lawsuit successful downtown Vancouver, Remembrance Day ceremonies volition beryllium held astir the province.

Timeline of the Victory Square ceremonial (all times approximate):

10:30 a.m.                 Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:31 a.m.                 National Anthem (Soloist Andy Greenwood)

10:42 a.m.                 Goin’ Home – Combined band

10:46 a.m.                 Youth Poem – Kari Wang

10:50 a.m.                 Mayor Ken Sim – Presentation to Student

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10:51 a.m.                 Prayer of Remembrance (The Reverend Captain Lydia Bae)

10:53 a.m.                 The Maple Leaf Forever (Andy Greenwood and Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs)

10:58 a.m.                 The Last Post

11 a.m.                 Two Minutes of Silence – 21 Gun salute (Followed by the Lament & Rouse Buglers)

11:05 a.m.                 Fly past (weather-dependent)

11:10 a.m.                 Official wreath placement

Single achromatic roseate placement (honouring veterans successful care)

11:20 a.m.                 God Save the King

11:21 a.m.                 Concluding Remarks and End of Ceremony

Parade prepares to determination off.

11:30 a.m.                 Broadcast concludes.