Opinion
A Remembrance Day tribute
By Andrew Caddell November 6, 2019
An estimated 68,000 Canadians died on the battlefields of the First World War and are among those who will be commemorated this Remembrance Day.
Garnet Wolseley LeMesurier, right, pictured jumping a fence in Kamouraska, Que., with his brother Percy, left, and friend Rex Meredith, centre, before he shipped off to war in 1914. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Caddell
OTTAWA—Each November, I go back to Québec City, where my mother, her mother, and grandmother were raised and are now buried, to read the “Honour Roll” of the dead of the wars at the Anglican Cathedral, in Le Vieux Québec. While the English community in Québec City only numbers 5,000 people, the cathedral is filled with worshippers for the Remembrance Day commemoration.
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