Montrealers mark Remembrance Day | CTV News [Video]

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Montreal on Monday to mark Remembrance Day and honour Canadians who sacrificed their lives in the great wars and beyond.

Veteran Susan Young was thinking of her great uncle who was killed by a sniper during the First World War.

“He died at the first wave of the battle of the Somme, giving his water canteen to one of his injured soldiers,” Young said in an interview.

For veteran Martine Roy, who is the President of the LGBT Purge Fund, looking to the past brings up other kinds of pain.

“1970 to 1992, there was a law, and all federal agencies that were saying, ‘If you’re homosexual, you’re a sexual deviant, and you have to be disposed.’ So, we were getting arrested and interrogated and sent to a psychiatrist and then kicked out. So that’s what happened to me in 1984,” Roy recounted.

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