ANGUS: Canada's 100 Days — A Remembrance Day Reflection

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Canada's 100 Days — A Remembrance Day Reflection

Charlie Angus / The Resistance - November 11, 2025

EXCERPT: "On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, everything stops in Canada.

In communities across the country, people gather to pay their respects to those who served or fell in the numerous wars of the last century. In my little town of Cobalt, the Legion calls out the names of the nearly 100 men who died in the two main world wars – young men from a town that is so small that we don’t even have stop lights.

Every community in this country experienced similar losses. Remembrance Day holds significant power in Canada because we sacrificed so many to free others.

I have written several essays about the Second World War, but I have rarely written about the First World War. I think it is because of my Grandmother, Jenny Boyd.

My Granny was traumatized by the war and spoke about it all the time.

She never got over all the young “boys” — neighbours, cousins, school mates from her working-class neighbourhood in Dundee who were slaughtered or disfigured in battles like Loos, the Somme and Ypres. Jenny had a deep hatred for the “politicians who send young boys to die.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."

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