Canada is holding events for Remembrance Day across the country.

A Remembrance Day attendee looks up as four Harvard aircraft perform a flypast over the scaled down Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph by Old City Hall in Toronto.

The extreme defensiveness around Remembrance Day and its symbols is only possible because of how stylized the modern observance has become.

Sadly, politics trumped memory. Decoration Day began as a protest in 1890 by forgotten Canadian veterans who had fought in Canada's first modern battle, the Battle of Ridgeway, on June 2, 1866.

Canadians are marking Remembrance Day with events taking place across the country honouring veterans who served in war and those who sacrificed their lives serving the nation.

Remembrance Day - the same day as Veterans Day in the United States - is a solemn occasion, and public observances of it will be more subdued this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Remembrance Day services will look much different this year due to COVID-19 restrictions but many in Canada and around the world are finding ways to honour war veterans.

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Canadians are marking Remembrance Day with events taking place across the country honouring veterans who served in war and those who sacrificed their lives serving the nation.