Peterborough’s Little Lake Cemetery and Highland Park Funeral Centre staff are hosting a public Remembrance Day service at sunrise on Friday (November 11).
The service will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the war memorial in the veterans’ section of Little Lake Cemetery (915 Haggart St., Peterborough).
“So often schedules don’t allow for people to pay tribute at the cenotaph at 11 a.m., so we wanted to provide an alternative for those to do that before work or school,” says Little Lake Cemetery Co. CEO James Belk in a media release.
The sunrise service will be officiated by Regimental Chaplain Nancy Wilson of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, and will include playing of “The Last Post” followed by two minutes of silence.
Staff will be at the main gates of Little Lake Cemetery to direct attendees to the service.
“It’s so important to honour our veterans who have fought for the freedoms we have today,” Belk says. “Our staff wanted to give our community another opportunity to honour those veterans.”
Little Lake Cemetery and Highland Park Funeral Centre are also working with various area schools in association with the No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation, which focuses on educating youth in Canada about Canadian veterans.
Local students will be placing Canadian flags at individual veteran’s graves in the days prior to Remembrance Day.
