December 5, 2011
Hundreds of families helped lay more than 2,700 wreaths on headstones yesterday to honour veterans buried at the Beechwood Cemetery in a special ceremony that, for many, will turn into a tradition.
2012 Articles
2011 Articles
- Start of tradition to honour Vets
- Wreath-laying ceremony begins sombre new tradition
- Dépôt de couronnes pour encourager les hommages aux soldats
- Group hopes to start new December wreath tradition
- Hommage aux soldats morts au combat
- Sombre gathering at Beechwood
- Remembrance Day observed across Ottawa
- Tens of thousands of veterans buried in unmarked graves
- Barry puts pleasing stamp on music
- Ottawa police to get own cemetery at Beechwood
- Loss Still Felt
- Sombre concert recalls tragedy
- Ottawa pays tribute to those lost on Sept. 11 Sunday, September
- Remembering the Canadians killed on 9/11
- Ottawa teacher wins Canadian Wildlife Federation Youth Mentor Award
- National Military Cemetery marks grim Dutch anniversary
- The nuances of Beechwood Cemetery
2010 Articles
- 9/11 victims, fallen Canadian soldiers honoured at Beechwood ceremony
- Ceremony honours Canadian 9/11 victims
- Beechwood ceremony honours the fallen
- ‘We had a nice life together,’ recalls wife of WWII veteran
- Canada mourns 9/11 victims
- Anniversary hijacked by politics
- Tears for 9/11 Victims
- Le Canada aussi se souvient
- Beechwood forgives debt man owed for wife's funeral
- A friend to ‘Friendless Women’
- Ottawa Chamberfest concerts use churches
- The Second Annual National Memorial Ride
- Dutch mark liberation at Beechwood Cemetery
2009 Articles
- Queen's Colour laid to rest
- 'Monumental contribution' hailed by Harper
- 9/11 has lost 'none of its horror': Harper
- CWGC has yet to determine whether storm damaged markers at Beechwood Cemetery
- Our national memories
- Television and Radio Clips
- Feds designate historic cemetery as national burial ground
- Beechwood désigné « cimetière national »
- Beechwood set to be named national cemetery
- Fallen honoured at military cemetery
- Emotion and reflection in salute to fallen heroes
- Don't quit on dreams, Hale tells Carleton grads
- Beauty, among the dead
- A place for the living
- Harper marks eight years of sacrifice in Afghanistan, affirms 2011 deadline
- Le cimetière Beechwood obtient la Sanction royale
- Beechwood Cemetery gets national tag
- Douglas Fleming burial site to become national cemetery
- Prentice Designates Beechwood a ‘national’ cemetery
- Ottawa's Beechwood to be national cemetery
2008 Articles
- A place for all to mourn
- Governor General opens national memorial centre
- ‘Sacred space’ honours fallen
- Hall Of Colours Pays Tribute To Regiments
- Canadians remember the brave
- Governor General declares memorial centre officially open
- 'Walk through a place of memory'
- A contemplative place
- Nation pays tribute to war dead
- East-end students heading for Norway
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