Remembrance Day dawned with rain and cold, but Revelstokians nonetheless marched to the cenotaph on Friday to honour the local men who answered their country’s call and went to fight in two world wars.
It’s a ceremony made poignant by the whittling away of the city’s population of veterans. Yet no one has yet forgotten the importance of the sacrifices our soldiers have paid. Hundreds of people young and old attended the ceremony and laid wreaths at the foot of the granite monument.
Here are a few images from that touching moment:
Silence reigns as the hundreds or people who crowded around the cenotaph on Friday honoured Canada's war dead. David F. Rooney photoGreg Brownlee, president of Royal Canadian Legion Legion Branch 46, thanks the crowd of people who braved cold and rainy weather to pay their respects to the city's war dead. David F. Rooney photoWith a cry of "Daddy!" young Nolan McLaughlin dashes from the crowd to go to his father, Constable Gary McLaughlin. It was a touching moment that provoked a lot of smiles before Lee-Ann McLaughlin retrieved her son. David F. Rooney photoThe Honour Guard of Army Cadets from the Rocky Mountain Rangers parade away from the cenotaph at the conclusion of Friday's Remembrance Day ceremony. David F. Rooney photo
