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Media Advisory - Canada's official overseas delegation mark the 100th anniversary of Canada's Hundred Days and the end of the First World War


OTTAWA, Nov. 7, 2018 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada will mark the 100th anniversary of Canada's Hundred Days and the end of the First World War by sending an official delegation to Belgium to take part in ceremonies and events from November 9 to11, 2018. The delegation will include Canadian Veterans, youth, and parliamentarians, as well as ceremonial support from the Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A contingent of the Canadian Armed Forces made up of regiments with a connection to those that fought in the closing battles of the war will be featured prominently in many events in Belgium during this period.

At some events, special guests will include Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada; the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence; Brigadier-General Darlene Quinn, Commander of Canada's Formation Europe; descendants of George Lawrence Price; Canadian Armed Forces members with family connections to the First World War; and, Veterans.

Media are invited to cover the various events and activities marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The delegation will attend numerous events during their stay in Belgium, including commemorative ceremonies, wreath layings, as well as making visits to local war cemeteries and locations of historical significance for the First World War.

Date: Friday, November 9, 2018

Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018

Date: Sunday, November 11, 2018

Veterans Affairs Canada is working with a Canadian Armed Forces Combat Camera (CFCC) team in Europe that will be able to accommodate a limited number of Canadian media wishing to conduct HD-quality live or live-to-tape interviews using Dejero equipment following certain events. Due to necessary technical planning requirements, media are urged to communicate to VAC their desire to conduct remote interviews no later than 4 p.m. EST on November 7, 2018.

Digitized archival footage of the Canadian Corps liberation parade in the Grand-Place of Mons, Belgium, in November 1918 is available for media use at: 
http://www.combatcamera.ca/public/100_commemorations/

Imagery of this event will be available immediately following the ceremony at:
http://www.combatcamera.ca/public/100_commemorations/

 

SOURCE Veterans Affairs Canada



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