Remembrance Day Services
Aberfoyle
The Optimist Club of Puslinch is hosting a Remembrance Day service on Nov. 11 at the Aberfoyle cenotaph, outside the Puslinch Community Centre.
This is a non-denominational service with all local churches participating.
Arthur
The Arthur Legion will be holding its Remembrance Day service at 11am on Nov. 11. People are invited to meet at the Legion (281 George St.) any time after 10am, and a procession will head from there to the cenotaph (110 George St.) at 10:40. The service at the Legion will take place at 11am.
People are then invited back to the Legion for a small lunch at about 11:45.
Belwood
The Remembrance Day service for Belwood is organized with assistance from Fergus Legion Branch 275 at the Belwood cenotaph.
It will be held on Nov. 8 at 11:30am at the cenotaph and features wreath-laying ceremonies and music provided by the Grand Celtic Pipe Band.
Clifford
The Harriston legion will host a service in Clifford on Nov. 8 at 2pm. The Clifford cenotaph is located at 8 Clarke Street North.
A wreath-laying ceremony will also take place.
Drayton
The Drayton Legion will be holding its Remembrance Day event at 2pm on Nov. 11.
It will begin at the Legion (15 Elm St.) and include a parade to the cenotaph.
After the service and wreath-laying at the cenotaph, people are invited back to the Legion for comradeship.
Elora
Legion Branch 229 hosts the Elora Remembrance Day service on Nov. 11 at 10:45am at the Elora cenotaph just outside the municipal office at 1 MacDonald Square.
The Legion, at 110 Metcalfe St., is offering light refreshments following the ceremony. It is also offering a Remembrance Day dinner at the Legion.
Erin
The Town of Erin will hold two Remembrance Day ceremonies this year on Nov. 8 and 11.
On Nov. 8 the cenotaph service will begin promptly at 10:55am, followed by a parade back to the Erin Legion, where light snacks and refreshments will be served for all.
On Nov. 11 the ceremony will look a bit different. It will include only a cenotaph ceremony and wreath laying. This will begin at 10:55am.
The 242 Ross Ferguson Air Cadets will hold their overnight vigil at the cenotaph from 8pm on Nov. 10 until 8am on Nov. 11.
Fergus
Legion Branch 275 is marking Remembrance Day on Nov. 11 with a parade at 10:30am and service at 10:45am.
The parade departs from the Fergus Legion, 500 Blair St., at 10:30 and ends at the cenotaph at the corner of Tower and Bridge streets.
Grand Valley
The Grand Valley service will take place at the cenotaph on Nov. 11 at 10:50am.
Guelph
There is a 9am ceremony at Colonel John McCrae House on Nov. 11. The Guelph Legion parade arrives at the Sleeman Centre at 10am for a Remembrance Day Service. The parade departs at 12pm.
Harriston
The Harriston Legion will hold a service on Nov. 11 at 11am at the Harriston cenotaph on Elora street.
Holstein
The Mount Forest Legion is hosting a service at the Holstein cenotaph on Nov. 8 at 2pm.
Mount Forest
The Mount Forest service begins outdoors at the Mount Forest cenotaph (Parkside Drive and Highway 6) at 10:40am on Nov. 11 and runs until 12pm, with comradeship at the Legion (140 King St. W.) afterwards.
Palmerston
Palmerston residents can attend a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11 at the cenotaph located next to the library.
The parade leaves the Legion at 10:30am and the ceremony usually starts between 10:45 to 11am.
The parade will march back to the legion for a free light lunch of soup and sandwiches open to the public.
Rockwood
The Rockwood Remembrance Day service will take place on Nov. 11 at 10:55am at the Rockwood cenotaph.
Prior to the service, there will be a parade, which will depart the Rockwood post office, at 178 Guelph St., at about 10:40am.
Following the service, members of the public are invited to enjoy some light refreshments in the hall at St. John’s Anglican Church on Main Street.
Salem
The Elora Legion Branch hosts the Salem Remembrance Day service on Nov. 11 at 9:30am at the cenotaph at the corner of William and Water streets.
Wellington County
Held in partnership with the county’s Legion branches, a Nov. 9 service, from 10:30am to 12:30pm, will honour those lost in both World Wars, the Korean War, Afghanistan and in service with NATO.
Local Legion members will recite more than 500 names of the county’s fallen on the county’s Museum and Archives front lawn in Aboyne.
The museum and archives will be closed on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11.
On Nov. 10, from 5:30 to 6pm, the public can place a candle on each of the 600 named markers staked along the front lawn, representing the county’s war dead.
Wellington Place administrator Jana Burns said the county ordered new hand-fabricated metal poppy markers this year.
The previous wooden stakes were 12 years old and had a “cemetery feel” to them, Burns said.
The new poppies, she said, “will look absolutely striking from the road.”
