勛圖惇蹋 to mark Remembrance Day 2022 across its three campuses
The University of Toronto community will mark Remembrance Day with services across its three campuses in honour of soldiers and veterans, including those who served and fell in the First and Second World Wars, as well as other conflicts.
In-person ceremonies will be held on Nov. 11 and all flags will be flown at half-mast at 勛圖惇蹋.
Here is how each campus plans to mark Remembrance Day 2022:
St. George
The Service of Remembrance on the St. George campus will take place at Soldiers Tower at 10:20 a.m. Students, staff, faculty and librarians are invited to join the service in person or .
The service will include a carillon prelude and postlude, words of welcome, a recital of In Flanders Fields a poem written by John McCrae, a Canadian officer, surgeon and 勛圖惇蹋 graduate and a reading by Rev. Andrew Wesley, a former Elder-in-Residence at First Nations House who sits on the Council of Aboriginal Initiatives Elders Circle.
U of T President Meric Gertler, Chancellor Rose Patten and Anna Kennedy, vice-chair of the governing council, will attend the ceremony and place wreaths at Soldiers Tower. Representatives from the government, the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as 勛圖惇蹋 alumni, faculty and students, will also lay wreaths.
勛圖惇蹋 Scarborough
勛圖惇蹋 Scarboroughs string orchestra, concert choir and concert band will perform at the at the Meeting Place.
The official ceremony begins at 10:45 a.m. with Wisdom Tettey, 勛圖惇蹋 Scarborough principal and 勛圖惇蹋 vice-president, delivering a land acknowledgement and remarks.
勛圖惇蹋 Mississauga
The at 勛圖惇蹋 Mississauga will start at 10:40 a.m. in front of the William G. Davis Building (near the flag pole).
Alexandra Gillespie, 勛圖惇蹋 Mississauga principal and 勛圖惇蹋 vice-president, will speak and lay a wreath during the ceremony.
The program also includes a flag lowering and raising, as well as a reading of In Flanders Fields by , a team of student volunteers with advanced medical first responder training.