Every year, The Royal Canadian Legion conducts the Poppy Campaign, along with thousands of our members who volunteer from coast to coast to coast, to raise funds in support of Veterans and their families.
Today, Central Saanich raised the poppy flag as an official way for our community to kick off the National Poppy Campaign.
We wear poppies to honour those who have served, and those to continue to serve our community. The Legion’s poppy campaign not only helps us remember, but it raises funds that help to look after the health and well-being of returning soldiers, veterans, and their families through mental health support, financial assistance, housing services, and other very worthy community services.
You can learn more about the Poppy Campaign here: www.legion.ca/remembrance/the-poppy
This year, the Central Saanich Remembrance Day service will be both a virtual and in-person ceremony.
Live stream will begin at 10:50 am on November 11 at www.CentralSaanich.ca
WHEN: Sunday, Nov 11, 2021
TIME: 10:50 a.m. (flypast at 10:45 a.m.)
LOCATION: 1209 Clarke Rd, Pioneer Park in Brentwood Bay
Did you know that 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Remembrance Poppy in Canada?
Story Courtesy of the Royal Canadian Legion: Madame Anna Guérin, later christened "The Poppy Lady from France", inspired by John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields", had an idea: to adopt the distribution of the Poppy on Armistice Day as a way to raise money for Veterans' needs and to remember those who had given their lives during the First World War.
In July of 1921 the Great War Veterans Association (which in 1925 would unify with other Veteran groups to form the Canadian Legion) adopted the Poppy as the flower of Remembrance.
Since then, the Legion and its members have upheld this tradition of Remembrance.