From the archives: The first Armistice Day

This story was first published on Nov. 11, 2007, in the Montreal Gazette.
“Montreal yesterday paid an impressive tribute to the memory of a day which is fated to ring down through the centuries.”
The Gazette, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1919
Canada’s first Remembrance Day was Nov. 11, 1919, exactly a year after the end of the First World War. Yet it was a work in progress, for here, as elsewhere in Canada, there was no universally understood idea of what the occasion was all about. Eve