Brockville, Ont: Royal Canadian Legion honours veterans [Video]

For the third consecutive year, the Royal Canadian Legion of Brockville, Ont. is honouring soldiers who were from the region ahead of Remembrance Day.

Hundreds of banners reading “We honour those who served” with pictures of men who served in the First World War and the Second World War, Korea, Afghanistan, and more are hung on lamp posts lining King Street in downtown Brockville.

The Legion saw the program being implemented in other rural communities in eastern Ontario and thought it would be a great way to honour soldiers from the Brockville area too.

The banners are purchased by families who had a relative that served in the military that they want to honour ahead of Remembrance Day, and each year the project has grown in scale.

“As soon as the banners went up, we did get a very positive response from the community,” said Paul Hodgert, the co-chair of …