Remembrance Day 2026

Greater Hammonds Plains & Lucasville Remembrance Day Ceremony

Join your neighbours at the Hammonds Plains Cenotaph to honour those who served and those who gave everything.

DateWed, Nov 11, 2026Start Time10:30 AMLocationUplands Park Cenotaph

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When

Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
Ceremony begins at 10:30 AM

Where

Hammonds Plains Cenotaph
Uplands Park, 6 Crestfield Drive, Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia

Parking

The Cornerstone Wesleyan Church has graciously offered the use of their parking lot, at the corner of Kingswood Dr, for parking on Nov 11th.

Questions

Contact Rick Burns
rick.burns@gmail.com

Map showing Uplands Park, Crestfield Drive and the Cornerstone Wesleyan Church parking at Kingswood Drive

Finding us

Gather at Uplands Park

The ceremony takes place at the Hammonds Plains Cenotaph in Uplands Park, just off Hammonds Plains Road. Parking is available a short walk away at the Cornerstone Wesleyan Church on Kingswood Drive.

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Order of Service

2026 Program

The full program will be confirmed closer to the day. Anything marked To Be Determined will be filled in as participants are confirmed.

MC
Rick Burns
O Canada
Lennon Rutledge, White Hills
Opening Prayer
To be determined
The Last Post
To be determined
Two Minutes of Silence
The Lament
To be determined
The Rouse
To be determined
The Act of Remembrance
To be determined
In Flanders Fields
To be determined
Benediction and Blessing
To be determined
Honoured Veteran
To be determined
Laying of Wreaths
Royal Anthem of Canada
To be determined

Special Thanks To

To be determined

VIP Guests

To be determined

2026

Our Honoured Veteran

Lest we forget

To be determined

This year's honoured veteran has not yet been selected. Their story will be shared here as soon as it is available.

Past honoured veterans: 2025 Wallace (Wally) Woodward · 2024 Tony Mombourquette · 2023 Eva Martinez

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Information & News

The story behind our cenotaphDesign details and where the soil came from The Cenotaph SocietyHelp expand the cenotaph with stones of recognition About our CenotaphVeterans Affairs Canada Government of Canada Commemorative Events ListingVeterans Affairs Canada Hammonds Plains' new cenotaph erected to honour fallen soldiersCBC · Mar 28, 2016 Hammonds Plains starts construction of veterans monumentCBC · Feb 07, 2016 Hammonds Plains to get veterans monumentCBC · Nov 11, 2015

With gratitude

Brought to you with support from

Parish of St. John's Anglican Church, Halifax Cornerstone Wesleyan Church Burns IT Consulting Wallace Lucas Community Centre Lucasville Baptist Church Bernice LucasAlexander E DrummondPerley Oliver

A quiet thank you

The flowers, shrubs and greenery around our cenotaph have been faithfully tended by Bloom Greenhouse of Hammonds Plains, without fanfare and without asking for recognition. We want them to know it has been noticed and deeply appreciated. Thank you for helping keep this place of remembrance beautiful.

Visit Bloom Greenhouse →

Our neighbourhoods

Brought to you by the neighbourhoods of Greater Hammonds Plains & Lucasville

Highland Park

Upper Hammonds Plains White Birch Hills

Maplewood on the Lakes

Glen Arbour

Lucasville

Waterstone

Uplands Park

Kingswood

Hammonds Plains

Westwood Hills

Haliburton

Looking for last year's ceremony?

The 2024 program, honoured veteran and details are kept in our archive.

Visit the 2024 Archive