Remembrance Day in Atlantic Canada begins at Newfoundlands Unknown Soldier tomb – Halifax [Video]

Hundreds lined the streets at the National War Memorial in downtown St. John’s today, bowing their heads as a cannon blast signalled the start of two minutes of silence to honour the country’s war dead.

The Remembrance Day ceremony was the first to take place alongside the tomb of an unknown Newfoundland Regiment soldier who died in battle in France during the First World War and was reinterred in St. John’s earlier this year.

Hundreds lined the streets at the National War Memorial in downtown St. John’s on Monday, bowing their heads as a cannon blast signalled the start of two minutes of silence to honour the country’s departed veterans.

David Moore was in awe at the sheer size of the crowd. His father fought in the Second World War with the 166th Newfoundland Field Regiment and later in the Korean War, and Moore lays a wreath for him every …