Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend York University’s Remembrance Day Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 10.
The Keele campus ceremony will take place at the Harry W. Arthurs Common – York flagpole. The community will gather in Vari Hall Rotunda by 10:15am, when the piper will lead the procession to the flagpole.
The Glendon campus ceremony will take place from 10:45 to 11:45am in the West Quad.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the armistice, on Nov. 11, 1918, that ended the First World War.
At 11am that day, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare.
Remembrance Day honours the men and women who were killed during the two world wars and other conflicts. Previously known as Armistice Day, it was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.