- Church Bells ringing 100 times at 11 am or sunset on the 11th of November across Canada.
- Student-made videos: I saw one of these as part of my women's group meeting last night. One of my fellow members who is a Grade 8 French Immersion teacher shared the work of her students with us. They did the artwork, the animation, the voiceovers, the filming etc. and all this after they researched and read letters home written by Canadian soldiers in Europe during WWI. It was impressively well-done and moving.
- As in previous years, a virtual poppy drop on the walls of Parliament Hill
- Parades, services, tributes large and small in churches, towns and cities across Canada
A project that I thought deserved special mention was a UK initiative. Pages of the Sea was a public art project curated by Danny Boyle, an award-winning film-maker. Volunteers took to 32 beaches across Britain to create faces in the sand to commemorate British soldiers who died in WWI. It was a project of only a few hours. As the tide came in the portraits and names washed away.
The following video is wonderful but beware if you're subject to migraines because at times the frames move very quickly. One commenter mentioned that frequency as a potential trigger.
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