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I thought I would share some images from my day to day. Started out at the remembrance Service at East York Civic Centre. East York was once it's own municipal entity but the mega City legislation made it part of Toronto.  East York has strong ties to our veterans, 3 legion branches in an area of about 98,000 people, a park named Dieppe, a park named Topham (VC winner) and streets named Dunkirk, Merritt (VC winner), Warvet and Vicross. After that I attended a service at our Rotary Club, Toronto East Rotary. We have two members who went ashore on D-day and one visiting veteran who accepted our donation to the Veterans living at Sunnybrook Hospital Veterans Centre.

East York Memorial Gardens - November 11, 2010


Parade enters Memorial Gardens
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Service begins
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Huge crowd this year, one of the largest I have ever seen
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Service comes to a close
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My son and I are among the first to place our Poppies at the foot of
the Cenotaph - a recent but growing tradition.
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Off to the Toronto east Rotary Service


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Club Members:
Charter President Bill Phelan and Jack Embrey
Both these gentleman went ashore on D-day, Bill was
with the Canadian infantry Corp and Jack with the Canadian
Armoured Corps
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Club member Alex Munroe, Toronto Police Pipes
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Taps by Andrew Burditt, Salvation Army
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Cheque presentaion to Sunntbrook Veterans - Don Stewart RCN accepting.
Don read In Flanders Field at the ACC, Leafs vs. Senators the other night,
then he dropped the ceremonial face off puck.
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The three WW II Warriors at our service today - Our Thanks Gentelmen!
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-- Edited by 73SC on Thursday 11th of November 2010 03:15:02 PM

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Thanks for sharing this. I heard on CTV this morning that this is the first year in which there are no surviving veterans of the First World War. But veterans from the Korean War are seeming to get more attention, which is good.

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The youngest man in the photo of three above is 86. As marks the first year ever that no Canadian WW I veterans are living, so the thought that the WW II veterans are fast disappearing is a stark reality. It was 65 years ago that WW II ended so really the youngest veterans could be 83 although we all know some lied and enlisted early and would be a bit younger perhaps 80, 81 or 82. 

I recall as a boy that my Grandfather had a friend who actually fought for Canada in the Boer War and WW I and I always found that to be incredible. I recall Teddy died at age 92 in 1974.


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Thanks for sharing Ray. Hopefully legislation will pass that will give us folks who aren't gov't workers here in Ontario and Quebec the day off so we can take part in these events.



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Great pictures, I had to work today, all be it a shorter day 12-5. I watched allot of the cereimonies on the news when I got home. Looks like it was a great weather day. Most places seem to have had record turn outs. For us after 6 days of rain and wind most people were probably too glad to get out of the house with the sun finally shining today.

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My daughter's high school made the news broadcast yesterday ... they all went out and made a giant poppy in the school parkinglot. Didn't look like much, but that they tried was something worth note.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Video+Centennial+Regional+High+School+students+staff+form+giant+poppy/3815056/story.html

There's a somewhat annoying ad comes up first, but then you get the news report of it.

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Great pix Ray!  I had the pleasure of meeting Don Stewart and all the guys at Sunnybrook last month when they invited me to give a talk.  Lotsa laughs and man can they joke around.worship.gif

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