Royal Canadian Legion members held a wreath ceremony Friday to remember the end of the Second World War.

More than 550,000 people have signed a petition to have the veteran knighted.

On the evening of Nov. 11, a hockey game at Clareview Recreation Centre began with a very touching tribute.

Large crowds also turned in communities across B.C., including Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford, Vernon and Kamloops.

"As long as you could walk, they were happy to have you," Mervin Fisher said.

Leipciger was born in Poland in 1928 and found himself inside the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, when he was just 15-years-old.

Canada apologizes for the lack of benefits given to Métis veterans after the Second World War.

Police say they searched a vehicle during a routine traffic stop and found a large bronze plaque that had been removed from the Dieppe Veterans' Memorial on Beach Boulevard.

The memorial is in honour of a Canadian war hero who is known for wounding a prominent Nazi commander in WWII.

The role of Canada's "most fightingest ship" in the Normandy invasion was commemorated with a ceremony on Hamilton's waterfront on Wednesday evening.