Remembrance Day details finalized

PRINCE GEORGE – Organizers of the first return to in-person to Remembrance Day ceremonies are on the home stretch. Everyone will muster at the Conference and Civic Centre Friday morning to get the final touches put to the parade and subsequent events. The event will get underway with the reading of a poem by Antonia Tannert, which won national acclaim in the Legion’s Literature and Art contest. Parade Marshall Sheldon Clare runs down the route.

“Well, the parade is going to proceed from the civic center along Quebec Street down to Fifth Avenue,” explains Clare. “From fifth down to George. Down George Street to the Cenotaph. And then the service will be conducted at the Cenotaph. I understand that’s going to be a bit brisk, so I’m sure it won’t be a lot of long pauses in anything. Then we’ll go up from the Cenotaph to Dominion, scoot over to Sixth Avenue, and down Sixth for the salute. There’s salute, which will be taken by Chief Superintendent Warren Brown and then onto George Street for the dismissal and then the retired to the Legion for various beverages and cordials and so on.”

He says it’s hard to predict how many will take part in the parade.

“We have had some indications from various units, of course, the Legion Color Party, the pipe band, RCMP has always a strong contingent. We’ll have the various military units, the Rocky Mountain Rangers, the Sea Army and Air Cadets, Navy League cadets, and various scouts and groups like the Knights of Columbus and the Masons and so on. The Elks, the various community organizations all participate. So it’s hard to say. I mean, we are also coming out of two years of not doing something quite like this. So we’re anticipating a good turnout and we’re trying to make sure we’re ready for it.”