Winnipeggers brave weather to honour the fallen

Advertisement

Advertise with us

Thousands of Winnipeggers braved a biting wind and freezing rain to attend Remembrance Day services throughout the city on Thursday.

Read this article for free:


or

Already have an account? Log in here »

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Subscribe and receive a limited-edition Free Press branded hat or tote.

Digital Subscription

One year of digital access for only $205*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles

*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional

$1 for the first 4 weeks*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles
Start now

*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 11/11/2010 (5757 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Thousands of Winnipeggers braved a biting wind and freezing rain to attend Remembrance Day services throughout the city on Thursday.

Those who attended say it was nothing compared with the sacrifices of those they honoured.

“It’s a show of support and appreciation,” said Rosalie Magne, whose son served in Afghanistan. He’s out of the military now but Magne, at the jam-packed Minto Armouries on Thursday, continues to attend services.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Members of the Canadian Air Force march at the Convention Centre during this morning's Remembrance Day service.
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Members of the Canadian Air Force march at the Convention Centre during this morning's Remembrance Day service.

“It’s a time to remember and pay our respects.”

In Manitoba, Remembrance Day is not a statutory holiday but it is an official day of observance.

The Remembrance Day Act generally requires most non-essential businesses in Manitoba to close on Thursday, Nov. 11 in honour of the nation’s war dead, veterans and forces serving now.

Essential services remained open.

Most provincial, federal and municipal government services took the holiday. Garbage pickup and recycling will be bumped back a day on the five-day schedule.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Wreaths are laid to honour the fallen during a ceremony at the Convention Centre today.
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Wreaths are laid to honour the fallen during a ceremony at the Convention Centre today.

 

PHIL.HOSSACK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA
402 Squadron's Pipes and Drums lead a parade back to the St. James Legion after Remembrace Day ceremony in Bruce Park on Thursday.
PHIL.HOSSACK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA 402 Squadron's Pipes and Drums lead a parade back to the St. James Legion after Remembrace Day ceremony in Bruce Park on Thursday.
Carol Sanders

Carol Sanders
Legislature reporter

Carol Sanders is a reporter at the Free Press legislature bureau. The former general assignment reporter and copy editor joined the paper in 1997. Read more about Carol.

Every piece of reporting Carol produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.

 

Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.

Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.

Report Error Submit a Tip