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People across Nova Scotia will be gathering for Remembrance Day ceremonies this morning that honour and remember those who have served.
CBC will be livestreaming the event at Grand Parade in Halifax. It’s scheduled to begin shortly before 11 a.m.
People will gather on Nov. 11 at the cenotaph in front of Halifax’s City Hall for a ceremony to honour and remember those who have served their country.
This year’s ceremony marks a return to downtown Halifax after the 2023 event was moved to Sullivans Pond in Dartmouth due to Grand Parade being a designated encampment site amid the city’s housing crisis. The municipality closed the site to tents last winter.
Mi’kmaw Elder Marlene Companion is scheduled to perform a smudging ceremony, a first for the Remembrance Day event at Grand Parade.
Jean Noel will lay a wreath in memory of her brother, Master Cpl. Kirk Bradley Noel, who is this year’s Memorial Cross recipient. He served in the navy before becoming a search and rescue technician.
Noel was killed in 2006 during a training exercise when a Cormorant helicopter crashed off Canso, N.S.
The Royal Canadian Legion has a list of ceremonies across the province and people can search for the gathering closest to them. They include nine in the Halifax Regional Municipality, eight in Cape Breton and more than a dozen in communities across the mainland.
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