Calgary Remembrance Day

• Replica Spitfire to participate in special flyover during Calgary Remembrance Day ceremony

  Remembrance Day visitors to The Military Museums in Calgary will turn their eyes to the sky for a glimpse of a replica Second World War aircraft owned by a local pilot.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2023
  
• Field of Crosses tribute to return to Calgary along Memorial Drive

  More than 3,500 crosses representing fallen southern Alberta service members will soon reemerge in a northwest Calgary green space along Memorial Drive.

  Features

  Oct 26, 2023
  
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• Calgary volunteers add final touches to Field of Crosses during Night of Lights

  Staff and students from St. Mary's University placed lit candles at the base of every one of the 3,620 markers that make up Calgary's Field of Crosses Thursday night.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2022
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• Calgary’s 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony at the Field of Crosses

  The 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony at the Field of Crosses will be live on Global Calgary and on this website starting at 10:30 a.m.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2021
• Calgary Remembrance Day ceremonies go virtual during pandemic

  The larger Remembrance Day ceremonies in Calgary are going virtual for 2020.

  Nov 10, 2020
• Calgary’s 2020 Remembrance Day ceremony at the Field of Crosses

  A very different, smaller crowd gathered at the Field of Crosses Memorial Project Wednesday to mark Remembrance Day 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2020
• How to attend sunrise and sunset ceremonies at Calgary’s Field of Crosses amid COVID-19

  The ceremonies are held twice a day from Nov. 1 until Nov. 10. 

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2020
• Calgary Remembers: Remembrance Day ceremony at the Field of Crosses

  Calgarians will mark Remembrance Day all around the city on Monday, Nov. 11.

  Nov 11, 2019
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• Alberta WWII veteran Jack Hilton dies at 99

  As a Typhoon fighter pilot, Hilton completed more than 100 operations across Europe during the Second World War and later went on to train hundreds of other young men to fly.

  Canada

  Mar 10, 2019
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• ‘I’ve seen things that humans shouldn’t see’: 99-year-old Calgary veteran shares WWII memories flying over Europe

  Hundreds of people attended a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Hangar Flight Museum in northeast Calgary on Sunday. One of the guests was a 99-year-old WWII pilot who shared his memories of the horrors of war.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2018