Being Canadian

What it feels like to be at the Canadian War Museum on Remembrance Day

On November 11, at exactly 11:00 a.m., sunlight shines through a single window in Memorial Hall at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, illuminating the headstone from the tomb of Canada’s Unknown Solider. This is what it’s like to experience this sombre event in our nation’s capital.

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