Human Rights A Day

Remembrance Day established the year after first world war’s end. On Monday, November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m., the fist world war came to an official end. The following year, the Commonwealth established Armistice Day, later to be known as Remembrance Day – a day for remembering the men and women who died during battles. During the first world war, of the 619,636 Canadian men and women who served, 66,655 died and another 172,950 were wounded. The second world war - with 1,081,865 Canadians in service - took the lives of 46,777 Canadian men and women with another 53,145 wounded. Some 516 Canadian soldiers also died during the Korean War. The poppy, a symbol of remembrance in many countries, has special significance for Canadians. In 1915, Canadian Lt.-Col. John McCrae wrote the poem, In Flanders Fields, when he saw poppies growing beside a grave of a close friend who had died in battle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.