Remembrance Day Basics
This day is celebrated every year in Canada to honor soldiers who fought for the country.
What is Remembrance Day?
This flower is the primary symbol of Remembrance Day in Canada.
What is the poppy?
This significant WWI battle is where Canadian forces earned international recognition for their courage.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This Canadian city sent a significant number of soldiers to the beach at Dieppe, France, in 1942.
What is Montreal?
Canada’s peacekeeping forces are often identified by this color of their helmets or berets.
What is blue?
This Canadian tomb honors an unidentified soldier who died in WWI.
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
On November 20, 1947, Philip Mountbatten married this distant cousin.
Who is Queen
Elizabeth II?
At the time of their marriage, she was Princess Elizabeth. The European royal families are all related.
Remembrance Day is observed on this date.
What is November 11?
This color of poppy symbolizes a commitment to peace and a future without war.
What is white?
The Canadian Corps was part of this larger military force during World War I.
What is the British Empire?
Canada entered WWII on this date.
What is September 10, 1939?
Canada first participated in peacekeeping in this conflict in 1956.
What is the Suez Crisis?
This Ottawa memorial is the central point for national Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada.
What is the National War Memorial?
Born November 5, 1911, Roy Rogers, “King of the Cowboys,” married this “Queen of the West.”
Who is Dale Evans?
She was also known as
“Queen of the Cowgirls.” The duo is known for their signature tune, “Happy Trails.” Together, they made the film My Pal Trigger, featuring Rogers’ ever-present horse.
The Remembrance Day moment of silence typically lasts this many minutes.
What is two minutes?
The British Empire introduced the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance after this world war.
What is World War I?
This Canadian city is home to the Canadian War Museum, which commemorates WWI and other conflicts.
What is Ottawa?
This regiment, comprised primarily of French Canadians, was heavily involved in the Dieppe Raid.
What is the Royal 22nd Regiment (Vandoos)?
Canadian forces served in this South Asian country in the 2000s as part of NATO-led operations.
What is Afghanistan?
This annual event involves placing candles on soldiers' graves at military cemeteries across Canada.
What is the Candlelight Tribute?
On November 18, 1978, in Guyana, South America, this preacher led his followers in mass suicide when they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.
Who is Jim Jones?
The site of the mass suicide was Jones’ compound, which was named for him—Jonestown.
This poem, written by Canadian doctor John McCrae, is often recited on Remembrance Day.
What is “In Flanders Fields”?
This phrase, is inscribed on many Canadian war memorials.
What is Lest We Forget?
This Canadian medic and poet wrote “In Flanders Fields” after the Second Battle of Ypres.
Who is John McCrae?
This Dutch city, liberated by Canadian forces, holds an annual ceremony in gratitude to Canada.
What is Wageningen?
This Canadian general led UN peacekeeping forces during the Rwandan Genocide.
Who is General Roméo Dallaire?
This annual ceremony in Ottawa honors Canadian Indigenous veterans and their contributions to the military.
What is the National Aboriginal Veterans Day ceremony?
Hellas is also known as this country.
What is Greece?
Its official name is the Hellenic Republic, but it is usually shortened to Hellas. In 1974, Greece ended the military regime that had governed it since 1967 and restored the republic.
This specific act of remembrance, introduced in the House of Commons in 1919, marked Canada’s first official observance of what would eventually become Remembrance Day.
What is Armistice Day?
This symbol, located at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, commemorates the Canadian forces who died in France.
What is the Mother Canada statue?
This WWI battle, fought in October-November 1917, resulted in heavy losses for Canadian soldiers against Germany.
What is the Battle of Passchendaele?
Canada’s role in the Battle of the Atlantic involved protecting these types of ships from German U-boats.
What are merchant ships (or convoys)?
Canada contributed to peacekeeping in this European country during the 1990s Balkans conflict.
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
This memorial in Halifax commemorates the thousands of Canadians who served at sea and those who lost their lives in the Battle of the Atlantic.
What is the Halifax Naval Memorial (or the Sailors’ Memorial)?
This European country is the world’s 16th smallest and the only country with Catalan (a Spanish dialect spoken in eastern and northeastern regions of Spain) as its official language.
What is Andorra?
It has the most tourists per capita in the world and is the only country known as a co-principality (led by two princes): the president of France and the bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.