Remembrance Day 2025

Remembrance Day is honoured on Tuesday, 11th of November, marking the anniversary of the end of the First World War at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. Millions of people around the world join together to remember those who were lost in this conflict, and wars since. Poppies were the first flowers to grow on the battlefields of France and Belgium after the devastation of the First World War, so are worn as a symbol of this Remembrance.

To get a bigger picture of the conflict and the events leading up to it, come in to the Geoffrey R. Weller library and check out a book or two on the subject.
 

In Flanders Fields: 100 Years by Amanda Betts

Call Number: PS8525.C73 Z6 2015

ISBN: 9780345810250

Publication Date: 2015

Featuring archival and contemporary images, In Flanders Fields: 100 years is a stirring and engrossing mediation on a singular moment in history, and a tribute to the vital importance of art in the face of the devasting effects of war.

 

 

From the West Coast to the Western Front by Mark Forsythe; Greg Dickson

Call Number: D640.A2 F674 2014

ISBN: 9781550176667

Publication Date: 2014

Compiling stories, artifacts and photos sent in by BC Almanac listeners from across the province, this volume tells of submarine smuggling, bagpipes lost on the battlefield, and of the ongoing struggles by soldiers who made it home.
 

War Beyond Words by Jay Winter

Call Number: D521 .W495 2018

ISBN: 9781108466615

Publication Date: 2018

Presents a panoramic history of transformations in our global imaginings of war from 1914 to the present.

 

 

For King and Kanata by Timothy C. Winegard

Call Number: D639.I56 W55 2012

ISBN: 9780887557286

Publication Date: 2012

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.