Pictures from the 2023 Remembrance Day commemorations [fr]
More than 66,000 Canadian soldiers died during WWI and 172,000 were wounded.
France will never forget.
As part of November’s Month of Remembrance, the Consul General of France in Vancouver and the Honorary Consuls of France in Western Canada paid tribute to the fallen soldiers who fought for the liberation of our country.
Consul General of France in Vancouver, Nicolas Baudouin, took part in the ceremonies held in Vancouver at the Victory Square along side politicians, members of the Consular corps and representatives of the French community. He then went to the event held in Chinatown.
Honorary Consuls of France in Western Canada also represented France locally.
In Saskatoon, SK, Véronique Loewen joined the SaskTel Centre event where thousands gather each year making it the largest commemoration in Canada. She laid a wreath in the name of the French Republic.
In Edmonton, AB, Jordan Willi attended the concert held at City Hall before going to the war memorial for the public ceremony.
In Calgary, AB, Roy Klassen took part in the city’s commemorations, alongside French Gérard Carlier, member of the French souvenir association. Mr Klassen also remembered the fallen soldiers by French-speaking Albertan Henri Rouleau’s cross, at the Field of Crosses’s temporary memorial. He died in Verdun in 1917 where he still lays at nearby’s Calais cemetery.
In Victoria, C.-B., Geoffroy de Nanteuil laid a wreath in the name of the French Republic at BC’s Legislative Assembly and took part in the ceremony held outside the Canadian Scottish Regiment.
If you know a Canadian veteran (still alive) who took part in the Liberation of France in 1944, or in the Operation Jubilee (Dieppe Raid) in 1942, please contact us.
He could be eligible for the Legion of Honour, the highest national French distinction founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.