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Remembrance Day Service 2023

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Earlier today Branch 25 (San Francisco) of the Royal Canadian Legion came together with the United States Navy Sea Cadet Corp – Arkansas Division at Liberty Cemetery in Petaluma for its annual Remembrance Day service. The program for today’s service is available by clicking here.

In addition to the in person service, we also streamed the service using Zoom. You can view an edited recording of that service at:

Thank you to both those who attended in person and those who attended online. Thanks also to our fellow Canadians at the Consulate in San Francisco, the Digital Moose Lounge, and the Canadian Studies Program at UC Berkeley. We appreciate the incredible job each of these groups did in promoting the service.

Finally, below are some of the photos that were taken, including our traditional group picture.

Commemoration Day Virtual Service 2023

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The program for today’s service is available at https://royalcanadianlegionus25.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/commemoration-day-virtual-service-program.pdf

All images and videos used during the ceremony were either original, open source, or were used with permission. Open source images included:

Thank you to the following individuals for participating in the service:

  • Dr. Neil Bose, President and Vice-Chancellor pro tempore of Memorial University
  • Captain Chris Miller, CD, Director of Music for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Band
  • Hon. Dr. Andrew Furey, Premier, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Hon. Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs, Government of Canada
  • The Ennis Sisters

Thank you to the following individuals or groups for their permission to use the following videos:

  • Ode to Newfoundland (John Harvey, Marketing & Communications, Memorial University)
  • Into the Arms of Home (Royal Newfoundland Regiment Band and Alan Doyle)
  • O Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism)

Using public domain images and videos from:

Thank you to Legion Magazine for permission to include their “Military Moment” on the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. The original video is available at https://legionmagazine.com/en/2016/06/military-moments-beaumont-hamel/

Finally, thank you to members of Branch 25 (San Francisco) of the Royal Canadian Legion and members of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps – Arkansas Division.

Memorial Day Service 2023

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Earlier today Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion (representing the San Francisco Bay Area) held their annual Memorial Day Service, supported by our U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) – Arkansas Division. The service took place at the Royal Canadian Legion plot in the Greenlawn Memorial Park on 1100 El Camino Real in Colma, CA.  The service was originally streamed at 11am on Saturday, 27 May 2023, and a recording of that stream (with some editing to address some of the technical issue) is available below.

The program can be viewed by clicking here.

The land acknowledgement for our plot at Greenlawn Memorial Park is available by clicking here.

The reflection delivered by President Michael Barbour was based on material from:

Remembrance Day Service 2022

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Earlier today Branch 25 (San Francisco) of the Royal Canadian Legion came together with the United States Navy Sea Cadet Corp – Arkansas Division at Liberty Cemetery in Petaluma for its annual Remembrance Day service. The program for today’s service is available by clicking here.

In addition to the in person service, we also streamed the service using Zoom. You can view an edited recording of that service at:

Thank you to both those who attended in person and those who attended online. Thanks also to our fellow Canadians at the Consulate in San Francisco, the Digital Moose Lounge, and the Canadian Studies Program at UC Berkeley. We appreciate the incredible job each of these groups did in promoting the service.

Finally, below are some of the photos that were taken, including our traditional group picture.

Note the reason we held our service today – Saturday, 05 November – was to better accommodate the schedule of our United States Navy Sea Cadet Corp – Arkansas Division, as most schools in the Bay Area do not close on 11 November.

Royal Canadian Legion US Branch #25 – Commemoration Day Virtual Service 2022

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The program for today’s service is available at https://royalcanadianlegionus25.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/commemoration-day-virtual-service-program.pdf

All images and videos used during the ceremony were either original, open source, or were used with permission. Open source images included:

Thank you to the following individuals for participating in the service:

  • Hon. Steve Crocker, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation
  • Jean-Pierre Godbout, Senior Program Advisor in the European Operations Directorate of Veterans Affairs Canada
  • Parks Canada guides Emma and Jacob
  • Dr. Vianne Timmons, OC, President of Memorial University

Thank you to the following individuals or groups for their permission to use the following videos:

The song Recruiting Sergeant by Great Big Sea was created with permission from:

Using public domain images from:

You can access a copy of just that video at https://youtu.be/GgKK6v4zYb4

Thank you to Legion Magazine for permission to include their “Military Moment” on the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. The original video is available at https://legionmagazine.com/en/2016/06/military-moments-beaumont-hamel/

Finally, thank you to members of Branch 25 (San Francisco) of the Royal Canadian Legion and members of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps – Arkansas Division.