Remembrance Day 2025
ORGANIZED BY ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION, MERRITT BRANCH 096
Tuesday, November 11 | 10:45 am
Laying of Wreaths | 11:00 am
Cenotaph (by the Merritt Civic Centre)
On Remembrance Day, we commemorate the brave men and women who gave their lives fighting for our freedom. In honour of these fallen soldiers, the Royal Canadian Legion Merritt Branch 096 invites everyone to attend this annual Remembrance Day ceremony.
The ceremony will take place outside by the cenotaph. There will be barricades set up so that the immediate area around the cenotaph is clear and the street where the Legion’s color party marches is free from obstructions.
Businesses, organizations and individuals may lay their own wreaths this year if they wish to do so. There will be an open house at the Legion Lounge after ceremony. Everyone is welcome to attend. Businesses, organizations and individuals wishing to purchase a wreath please call the Legion at 250-378-5631 or email Legion096@outlook.com.
PROGRAM
SERVICE
Cenotaph – A vigil shall be mounted on the cenotaph 15 minutes prior to the service
10:45 am | Prelude – Nicola Valley Community Band
10:50 am | Color Party marches to cenotaph along with drummer and pipers and RCMP
| O Canada – The flag is to be raised while O Canada is played
- Opening Remarks – MC Roger White | President Alphonse L’ Abbe
- Prayer – Pastor Dan Sczebel
- Last Post – Mason Hintz– 11:00 to 11:02 hours just prior to commencement of the two-minute period of silence
- Silence (two Minutes)
- Reveille – Bugler – Mason Hintz
- Lament – Piper – Duncan Ross & Drummer Rick Leadbeater
- Act of Remembrance – Nick Tolerton
They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn. Response
At the going down of the sunand
In the norming
We will remember them. - Response – We will remember them
- Nicola Valley Community Band – Song: AMMERLAND
- In Flanders Fields – read by Jordynn Furman
- Wreath Laying: Background music
It is imperative that a wreath representing Canada be laid before all others - Blessing – Pastor Dan Sczebel
- Lay Poppies – Color Party lays poppies. Then RCMP. Then veterans who are standing near cenotaph with others who are doing ceremony. Finally those who are doing ceremony at cenotaph.
- National Anthem – God Save The King
- March Off – Color Party along with RCMP and Veterans and Legion Members
- General public – lay their poppies
- NVCB plays ‘Hallelujah’ – By (Leonard Cohen)
POOL HOLIDAY HOURS
CLOSED | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025
MERRITT CIVIC CENTRE & NICOLA VALLEY MEMORIAL ARENA | OPEN AS BOOKED (ALL OFFICES CLOSED MONDAY)
CITY HALL + OFFICE HOURS
CLOSED TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025
EVENT ROAD CLOSURE
There will be a road closure on Mamette Ave between Chapman and Voght as well as the alleyway south of Mamette from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM for the Remembrance Day ceremony.
